Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

William S. Burroughs

Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry; for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.

William Jennings Bryan

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

William Whipple

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

William Morris Hunt

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

William J. Clinton

I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

William J. Clinton

The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

Sarah Chalke

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

Samuel Smiles

No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

William Faulkner

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Warren G. Bennis

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

Ronald Reagan

There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.

Saint Francis de Sales

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

Yanni

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

Wiz Khalifa

The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.

Winston Churchill

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

Wilma Mankiller

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Will Rogers

The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.

Will Rogers

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

Warren Farrell

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

W. C. Fields

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

Zig Ziglar

It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.

Zig Ziglar

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

Zhuangzi

Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits - such men are under the doom of heaven.

Zac Hanson

Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.

Yolanda Adams

No matter how hard it seems...never give up, always believe.

William H. Macy

I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's a person, or two people, who have an absolutely monomaniacal passion to get these films made. That's what makes them happen. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.

Wendell Berry

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

Wendell Berry

Willing to die you give up your will; keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.