Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Foreman

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

George Foreman

Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that my not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.

Jon Lovitz

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?

Jon Krakauer

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

Jon Bon Jovi

When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.

Johnny Vegas

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

Johnny Vegas

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

Johnny Vegas

I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.

John Zorn

I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

Johnny Carson

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

Johnny Cash

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Johnny Cash

I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

Lynn Coady

It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission to not have to change, and not have to evolve. It encourages us to bury our heads in the sand, or in values that are really morally neutral but that we pretend are moral goods: tradition, community and family for example.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Luanne Rice

Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.

Luc de Clapiers

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

Louis Menand

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear a kind word from your lips. But that ship sank under an assault of bitterness that no amount of charm or guile will recover. (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

He was surrounded and they were hungry for what few brain cells he had left. But you know what? He wasn't about to give in or give up. If he was going out, it would be the way he had come into this world. Fighting for every single breath.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I can'tdo it again,Nick. I can't. And I would rather give my life for you than have you give yours for me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Susan: "...My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

Shawnee Smith

I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.

Sherry Turkle

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Sherry Turkle

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

Sherry Turkle

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

Sherwood Anderson

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.

Sheryl Crow

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

Sherry Argov

If you allow your rhythm to be interrupted, you'll create a void. Then to replace what you give up, you'll start to expect and need more from your partner.

Sherry Argov

Until he gives you a reason not to trust him, behave as though you trust him.