Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Sowell

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.

Thomas Sowell

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

Thomas Sowell

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

Thomas Sowell

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

Robert McKee

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

Robert McNamara

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

Robert Harris

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

Vinod Khosla

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

Vinod Khosla

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Viswanathan Anand

I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

Walt Whitman

We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

Walt Whitman

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

Saul Bellow

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

Sarah Jessica Parker

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

Sarah Dessen

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

Sarah Dessen

Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

Sarah Dessen

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

Sarah Dessen

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

Sarah Dessen

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

Sarah Dessen

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.

Sarah Dessen

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

Sarah Dessen

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

Sarah Dessen

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Sandra Brown

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Sandra Bullock

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

Sandra Bullock

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

Sandra Bullock

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.

Rohinton Mistry

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

Roger Mudd

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Ebert

One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered