Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's like giving yourself a raise and it is really the money-smart thing to do.

It's kind of like they're famous. Everyone's giving them high-fives and stuff.

Lou Reed

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

Lois Lowry

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

Lloyd Alexander

If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

Lloyd Alexander

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

LL Cool J

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

Madeleine L'Engle

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Madeleine L'Engle

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

Lynne Stewart

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

Lytton Strachey

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

Lynne Truss

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

Lysander Spooner

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Louis Zamperini

Never give up, no matter what.

Louis Zamperini

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Louis Zamperini

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

Louisa May Alcott

. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Lou Holtz

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

Lou Holtz

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

John Green

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

John Goodman

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

John Gay

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

John Ford

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

John Flanagan

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.

John F. Kennedy

I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

John F. Kennedy

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

Jonathan Krohn

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

Jonathan Ive

In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.