Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Ron Hubbard

It doesn't give me displeasure to hear of a virgin being raped. The lot of women is to be fornicated.

L. Ron Hubbard

What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.

Lewis Thomas

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

Lesley Stahl

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

Leonard Mlodinow

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

Leonard Nimoy

The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

Leonard Nimoy

You create your own life and your work. Give us your best.

Len Elmore

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who persevered, who in many ways overcame, who recognized the importance of giving back, particularly to our youth, and as someone who tried to reach back and to catapult the next generation beyond him.

Lemmy Kilmister

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

Len Wein

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Lee Pace

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

Lee Kuan Yew

I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way.

Neil Simon

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

Neil Postman

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

Neil Peart

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

Viktor E. Frankl

Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.

Viktor E. Frankl

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

Vano Merabishvili

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

Vanessa Redgrave

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

Vanna Bonta

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

V. S. Pritchett

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

Val Kilmer

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Vaclav Havel

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

Vaclav Havel

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

Vaclav Havel

Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

Utah Phillips

You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed.

Tryon Edwards

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Tucker Max

9:00: I don't know what I want. I just point at the Dollar Menu and say, 'Give me all of that.

Susana Martinez

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Suzanne Collins

I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.

Suzanne Collins

The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.

Suzanne Collins

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

Suzanne Collins

I will never give up if you never give in.