Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catharine Beecher

... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves.

Cassandra Clare

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?

Cassandra Clare

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.

Cassandra Clare

As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.

Cassandra Clare

You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

George Eliot

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

George Eliot

Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.

Gouverneur Morris

Give the vote to the people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them.

Gore Vidal

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

Gore Vidal

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Gore Vidal

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

Gore Vidal

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

Gillian Flynn

My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

Gillian Flynn

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Gillian Jacobs

I also have learned as an actor, this ties in the principles of improv, sometimes someone gives a piece of instruction and my first reaction is "I don't want to do that." I've always learned that every time I just say yes and go for it something happens. Whether it's what the intent of the direction was or not or something new happens. It's just remaining open to other people's ideas.

Giambattista Valli

I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion.

Harvey Milk

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.

Harvey Milk

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives.

Harold Ramis

The trick with sequels is, you have to give people what they liked before, yet be innovative enough so they don't feel like they're seeing the same movie.

Harold Ramis

If you're doing six takes, instead of doing six variations on the same words, why not just throw out the words and make them up as you go along, if you're comfortable with it? It gives the movies a slightly rangier feeling, and more of an accidental feel, but it also makes them edgier.

James E. Faust

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

James D. Watson

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

James Brown

Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

Jake T. Austin

I love my fans unconditionally. They have been supportive of me through everything, and I would not be here, giving this interview to you, without them.

Jaime Winstone

You have to give to be able to receive.

Jacques Derrida

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Jackie Evancho

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

Jackie Cooper

Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn't involved, and I wasn't very good.

Jackie Chan

Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market,

Jack White

Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.

James Freeman Clarke

Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world.

James Gandolfini

Those who want respect, give respect.