Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jil Sander

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

Gucci Mane

I don't give a damn how you feel about me, I sip lean pure codeine and I don't give a damn what you say about me.

Groucho Marx

Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!

Groucho Marx

The Arab and the camel are inseparable. It's been said that and Arab would give up his wife rather than give up his camel. Personally, I haven't got a camel, but I think it's a great idea.

Goldie Hawn

the smile you give is the smile you get back.

Golda Meir

I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.

Golda Meir

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

Girolamo Savonarola

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Gisele Bundchen

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

Gil Scott-Heron

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

Gerald Chertavian

You can't give until you have.

Harri Holkeri

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Harper Lee

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Gregory Benford

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

Gregory Maguire

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions..

Hope Davis

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

Holly Near

Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Ignatius of Antioch

Take heed often to come together to give thanks to God and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

Ignatius of Loyola

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

Ignatius of Loyola

God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.

Ignatius of Loyola

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Iggy Pop

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

Iggy Pop

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Iain Glen

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.