Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay-Z

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

Jay Roach

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

Jay Leno

Hey, Barack Obama had to give up his Blackberry. He's the first wired president. ... He might have to give his Blackberry because of security reasons. Because they're easy to hack into. In fact, when Obama heard he might have to give it up, he said, 'OMG! WTF?' I mean, he couldn't believe it.

Kirk Cameron

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

Kim Campbell

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

Kevin Garnett

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

Kevin Costner

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

Karl Marx

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Karl Marx

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Jules Verne

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

Julia Child

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.

Kristin Hannah

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

Myles Munroe

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Molly Ivins

I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

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.

Gerald R. Ford

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

Hunter S. Thompson

sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks...

Hulk Hogan

I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.