Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fulton J. Sheen

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

Frantz Fanon

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

Jeanette Winterson

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

Jeanette Winterson

For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience...

Jeanette Winterson

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Jeanette Winterson

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

Jim Carrey

Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice.... It’s about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel.

Jessie Ware

I always have to pretend I'm somebody else to give the best performance. It kind of feels like I'm acting; it's definitely an exaggerated version of me. I'm a very normal, down-to-earth person, but I wanted the videos to be striking, so I have to lay it on a little bit.

Jet Li

If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

Jessie J

The best gift a fan could give me is undeniable support.

Jewel

everything is temporary if you give it enough time...

Jewel

I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.

Pause and remember - Slow and steady will get you where you want to go. If you put too much pressure on yourself for results too quickly, you will quickly give up.

Jennifer Saunders

Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was why we used a historical calligraphy scroll come to life.

Jennifer Weiner

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

Jeannette Walls

But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

Jeb Bush

This is something - we have to have the best defensive capabilities. We need to coordinate all of our efforts with the private sector. We need to give them liability relief so that we can do that.

Jeaniene Frost

Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes.

Jeaniene Frost

My body is the only thing that’s truly mine, so I don’t give it away as though it’s worthless.

Jeaniene Frost

Of course you are. Then you're going to give me multiple orgasms and pay off my mortgage too. I saw this movie, pal. It was in the fantasy section. (Isa)

Jerry Moran

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

Jerry Jones

I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.

Jerry Lewis

The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, 'Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy.'

Jeremy Lin

My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

Jeremy Lin

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

Jennifer Grant

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

Jennifer Garner

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

Jennifer Hudson

Ye canna give up hope when that is all ye have.

Jeff Buckley

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

Jeff Bezos

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.