Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Goldsmith

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

Margaret Atwood

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

Margaret Cho

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

Lauren Oliver

There's always some relief in giving up.

Lauren Oliver

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for....

Lauren Oliver

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

Larry Robinson

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

Laila Ali

I was one of those people who wasn't getting a lot of milk, so I had to pump forever to just get two ounces of milk. But, you know, I wasn't going to give up or stop.

Lakshmi Mittal

The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

L. Frank Baum

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.

L. Neil Smith

Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.

L. Neil Smith

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

Paul Celan

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.

Madonna Ciccone

If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!

Luke Rhinehart

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Lorrie Moore

It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.

Margaret Millar

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

Michael Crichton

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

Michael Crichton

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

Melissa Bean

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Mary Baker Eddy

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Martin Fleischmann

If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science. With a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you've got any integrity, you don't give up. You only give up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue. And you have to take the consequences.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

Mark Mills

Give 100 percent to everything you do and never give up.

Marilyn Monroe

Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept -— as much as one can bear.

Marilyn Monroe

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

Nikki Sixx

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

Nicki Minaj

Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.

Mark Twain

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

Nicholas Stern

A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.