Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Chan

God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.

Francine Rivers

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

Jennifer Ehle

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

Jeff Thomson

England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.

Jeff Vandermeer

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."

Jeff Sessions

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

Jeff Greenfield

It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.

Jeff Gordon

You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.

Jeff Goodell

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Jean Rostand

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Jean Rhys

For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.

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.