Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Chopin

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

Keith O'Brien

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.

Keith Richards

I only get ill when I give up drugs

Kevin Powers

I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.

Keri Hilson

Dear heart, I promissed you i'd take it slow. Dear love, I know I swore on everything I own. But I can resist...it's just one kiss.

Iris Dement

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

Iris Johansen

In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

Irvin D. Yalom

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Iris Murdoch

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Imre Lakatos

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Idries Shah

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Gloria Steinem

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Gloria Steinem

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Geraldine Ferraro

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

Harry Mathews

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Harry Reid

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

J. K. Rowling

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

J. R. Moehringer

Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

Jessica Valenti

People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

Jessica Valenti

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

Jessica Valenti

I think that almost all traditional institutions are sexist, and they're probably racist and homophobic, and they're all of these things. But a lot of them, like marriage, are too embedded into the culture to give up.

Jessica Simpson

About losing a spot on The Mickey Mouse Club to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera: "I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going.

Jerry Bridges

The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and...want to give up or try to work something out on our own.

Jenna Ushkowitz

I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

Jeanne Moreau

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.

Gloria Allred

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Gloria Estefan

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

Giacomo Leopardi

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.