Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Agnes Martin

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Charles Dickens

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Spurgeon

I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.

Charles Spurgeon

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Richard G. Scott

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

Richard G. Scott

If you are ensnarled in pornography, make a total commitment to overcome it now. Find a quiet place; pray urgently for help and support. Be patient and obedient. Don't give up.

Brent Spiner

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

DJ Quik

I don't think you should ever give up on trying to push the bar a little bit higher.

Aaron Swartz

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

Charlie Gonzalez

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

Charlie Chaplin

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Charles de Lint

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

Charles Stanley

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Brian Chesky

Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

Brian Cox

As we get older, things seem less important.

Brian Cox

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

Brian Eno

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Steve Saviano

When you get to shootouts, it comes down to who has the most talent. Usually the team with the most talent wins. We have a lot of talent on this team and we're pretty talented up front.

Jane Austen

I have no talent for certainty.

Britt Ekland

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

Brett Favre

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Brenda Ueland

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Calvin Trillin

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

Charlie Kaufman

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.