Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Ford

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

Robert D. Kaplan

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

Roald Dahl

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

Rob Bell

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Richard Krajicek

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

Tullian Tchividjian

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

Tupac Shakur

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

Tracy Letts

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

Sarah Jessica Parker

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

Sarah Dessen

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

Sandra Brown

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Sandra Bullock

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

Rohinton Mistry

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

Roger Mudd

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Robert Plant

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

Sarah Vowell

I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.

Sarah McLachlan

Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight

Sarah MacLean

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

Sarah Polley

It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

Walter Lippmann

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

Walter Lippmann

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

William Stafford

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?

William Ralph Inge

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

William Ralph Inge

If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

Trust Yourself and Believe, Whatever Happens Don't Give Up...

Winslow Homer

I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.

Winston Churchill

Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.

Winston Churchill

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.

Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.