Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jorge Valdano

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.

Joni Mitchell

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

Kevin Bacon

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.

Katie Aselton

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

Kurt Busch

That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

Khaled Hosseini

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

Khalil Gibran

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

Jonathan Swift

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.

Naomi Wolf

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

Naomi Wolf

...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.

Napoleon Hill

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

Lita Ford

I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.

Lynda Barry

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

Louis de Bernieres

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Lou Holtz

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Lord Chesterfield

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

Malcolm Gladwell

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

Magic Johnson

Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

Gael Garcia Bernal

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

Gail Carson Levine

Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

Frank Langella

Where you are is where it's at.... Don't ever give up & don't ever give in.

Frank Luntz

Nothing's going to stop you or deter you or cause you to give up. Pursuit, because nobody actually expects it to happen. They want you to be continuous in your efforts. And perfection because there's just nothing better.

Oriana Fallaci

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Orhan Pamuk

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

Olivia Goldsmith

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

Octavia Butler

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Emile M. Cioran

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

Emily Dickinson

I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

Emeril Lagasse

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

Ellis Peters

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.