Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erykah Badu

What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

Erykah Badu

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

Erykah Badu

I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

Ernest Holmes

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

Ernest Holmes

Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.

Ernest Holmes

I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.

Ernest Holmes

Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

Erma Bombeck

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

Erma Bombeck

What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

Erma Bombeck

I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

Erma Bombeck

. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

Erland Josephson

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

Erin Heatherton

People like to be around those who give off positive energy.

Florence Scovel Shinn

I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.

Florence Nightingale

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

Florence Griffith Joyner

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

Flannery O'Connor

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

Fidel Castro

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

Henry Miller

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

Henry Miller

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.

Henning Mankell

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Henny Youngman

A motel is where you give up good dollars for bad quarters.

Henny Youngman

He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them.

Henny Youngman

When I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter."

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

Henri Frederic Amiel

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.

Helen Keller

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

Helen Keller

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

Helen Keller

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

Catfish Hunter

He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.

Cat Power

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

Catharine MacKinnon

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.