Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Henry David Thoreau

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Jean Genet

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jillian Michaels

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

Jillian Michaels

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

Jessica Lynch

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

Jessica Hahn

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Jessica Hahn

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Jerry Greenfield

I'm a pretty laid-back kind of guy. What I've always wanted to do is set up situations in our company where if people who worked there needed help, we would try to help them, and at the same token if the company needed help from people, they would help us. A kind of give and take.

Jerry Falwell

Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.

Jeremy Collier

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

Jeremy Collier

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Estelle

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

Esther Hicks

Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

Esther Hicks

One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times

Esther Hicks

You're always getting a perfect vibrational match to what you predominantly give your attention to. But you've got to make the best of it. You've got to vibrate slightly different from where you are if you are going to improve where you are. You can't keep taking score of where your business is or your relationship is or your body is without continuing to create it as it is. To make improvement, you've got to reach for a different thought.

Esther Hicks

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

Ernest Hemingway

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Ernest Hemingway

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Evita Peron

Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

Ethel Merman

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

Etty Hillesum

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Eudora Welty

Don't give anybody up. . . or leave anybody out. . . . There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help."--Spoken by Jack to Gloria

Erwin W. Lutzer

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.