Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iain Duncan Smith

I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

Ian Anderson

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

Iain Banks

If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.

Hugh Shelton

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

Hugh Grant

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

Hrithik Roshan

It's not the skunk's fault that he's a skunk or that he gives off this really bad stink. If I am a skunk, I want to live as a skunk, I want to know what my truth is, to know the person I am without fear.

Howard Zinn

I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.

Howard Zinn

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

Hosea Ballou

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

Horace

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Horace

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.

Horace

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Horace

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

Horace

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Hannah Arendt

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

Guy Fieri

My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.

Guy Finley

Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.

Guy Finley

To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

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.

He's an authoritarian, intolerant type who's sure he knows the right way to proceed. He's surrounded himself with 'yes' people. What his people are saying, because they know that's his inclination, is, 'Don't go into the debate,' instead of giving objective advice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.