Famous Quotes & Sayings

Libba Bray

Simon, would you still care for me if you discovered I was not who I say I am?" What do you mean?" I mean would you still care for me, no matter what you came to know?" What a thing to ponder. I don't know what to say." The answer is no. He does not need to say it. With a sigh, Simon digs at the fire with the iron poker. Bits of the charred log fall away, revealing the angry insides. they flare orange for a moment, then quiet down again. After three tries, he gives up. I'm afraid this fire's had it." I can see a few embers remaining. "No, I think not. If..." He sighs, and it says everything.

Leslie Stephen

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

Friedrich August von Hayek

[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

Friedrich Schiller

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

George Foreman

I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.

Jon Bon Jovi

When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.

Johnny Cash

I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

He was surrounded and they were hungry for what few brain cells he had left. But you know what? He wasn't about to give in or give up. If he was going out, it would be the way he had come into this world. Fighting for every single breath.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Susan: "...My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

Shawnee Smith

I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.

Sheryl Crow

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

Sherry Argov

If you allow your rhythm to be interrupted, you'll create a void. Then to replace what you give up, you'll start to expect and need more from your partner.

Niki Lauda

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

Nicolas Cage

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

Nick Vujicic

Don't GIVE UP. And know that there is always someone out there who believes in you and who loves you JUST THE WAY THAT YOU ARE.

Nick Vujicic

When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral of hasty decisions and faulty judgments, to overreacting, giving up too soon, and missing those opportunities that always - always - appear just when you think life will never get better.

Nick Vujicic

I am gonna try again and again, because the moment I give up, is the moment I fail.

Nick Vujicic

Don't give up on God, because God will not give up on you.

Nick Vujicic

As long as I try, there’s always a chance of getting up. It’s not the end until you give up.

Nick Vujicic

Whether your life is happy or not is your own choice. Many people think I can't live a normal life because I don't have arms or legs. I could choose to believe that and give up trying. I could stay at home and wait for others to take care of me. Instead, I choose to believe that I can do anything, and I always try to do things my own way. I choose to be happy. I am happy because I am always thankful.

Nick Vujicic

I will try one hundred times to get up, and if I fail one hundred times. If I fail and I give up, will I ever get up? No! If I fail I’ll try again, and again and again. But I want to tell you it’s not the end.

Nora Roberts

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

Nicole Krauss

Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.

Nas

The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

Nas

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about. You've always got to stick with whatever you're into because you're day is going to come. You're day is destined. If you walk away from that, whether it be from fear or whether you're just giving up. The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

Miranda Lambert

I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.

Miranda Lambert

I won’t give up what I enjoy to look perfect. I want to find a happy medium between feeling good about my body and still having a beer and some barbecue.

Miranda July

It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.

Mike Murdock

Intolerance of your present creates your future.

Mignon McLaughlin

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Mignon McLaughlin

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.