Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Michael Buble

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

Melanne Verveer

We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

Masashi Kishimoto

If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.

Masashi Kishimoto

Give up trying to make me give up

Masashi Kishimoto

There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up

Masashi Kishimoto

The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.

Masashi Kishimoto

So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know..... what truly matters....

Masashi Kishimoto

I'm just being selfish..... I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went the wrong way... But you... You showed me the right way... I was always chasing you... Wanting to overtake you... I just wanted to walk with you... I wanted to be with you... You changed me! Your smile saved me! So I'm not afraid to die protecting you!!! Because I-- Love You...

Mason Cooley

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Mary Antin

Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.

Michael Chabon

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

Michel Houellebecq

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

Michael J. Fox

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Michael Jordan

If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!

Ted Cruz

President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.

Theodore Roethke

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

Malcolm X

The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Mahatma Gandhi

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

John C. Maxwell

The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.

John C. Maxwell

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.