Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

Vernon Jordan

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

Veronica Roth

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

Robert Fritz

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.

Robert Fripp

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

Robert Frost

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

Robert Frost

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

Robert Frost

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

Rick Nielsen

Surrender, but don’t give yourself away

Rick Mercer

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

Rick Mercer

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

Rick Moody

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

Richard E. Byrd

Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.

Richard Dreyfuss

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Rebecca Black

I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up.

Thornton Wilder

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Thornton Wilder

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

Thomas Nelson Page

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

Thomas Nagel

If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

Thomas More

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

Thomas Paine

I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.

Thomas Paine

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.

Thomas Huxley

Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.

Thomas Huxley

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

Thomas Huxley

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Timothy Bottoms

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

Timothy Geithner

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

Timothy Leary

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Thomas S. Monson

May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.

Thomas Sowell

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

Thomas Sowell

So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

Thomas Sowell

We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam Hussein a final warning, and now wants to give him another final warning. And, if he doesn't heed that, they will threaten him with yet another warning.

Thomas Sowell

The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship of those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts - or even the lives of other people.