Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Ellison

At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.

Rainn Wilson

I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

Rachelle Lefevre

I went to McGill University, but I didn't graduate. They won't graduate me because I didn't have a degree in any one thing. I studied everything and they were like, "You studied too many things, so we can't give you a degree."

Rachel Zoe

I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.

Rahul Gandhi

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

Radhanath Swami

If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions

Radhanath Swami

Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.

Radhanath Swami

In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.

Radhanath Swami

Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

Sean Penn

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

Scarlett Thomas

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Lily James

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Liam Gallagher

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

Les Wexner

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

Lenny Wilkens

If you want it, you've got to give it.

Lenny Bruce

Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

Endowed with purified intellect, subduing the mind with resolve, turning away from sound and other objects of the senses, giving up likes and dislikes.

As the male was giving his statement to the officers, several items of drug paraphernalia were observed in plain view.

Elizabeth Morgan

At that point, we got out and tried to coax him into giving us the child. He wouldn't, so we called 911.

At that point, parents need to start giving them tips about how to say 'no' to peer pressure.

Raymond Queneau

We think of giving importance to history, but it is the individual who is interesting, and we want to give him a historical importance.

Chris Johnson

We did a lot of things right tonight. They're always happy when I give them a day off, and this is a time when I can feel good about giving them a day off.

We did a lot of good things defensively. That's what we've been, quote, hanging our hats on. We're averaging giving up 43 points a game.

We did a good job taking what they were giving us.

Bronson is playing well. He's giving me an inside presence. And, Brandon can really get up and down that floor. I was really pleased with everybody.

Thomas a Kempis

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Orson Scott Card

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.