Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dana Spiotta

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

Dane Cook

I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I'm so trying to give up meat.

Darren Johnson

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

David Levithan

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

Dalai Lama

Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.

Dolores Huerta

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

Deval Patrick

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

Dermot Mulroney

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

Derek Luke

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

Delia Ephron

I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

Della Reese

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.

Deepak Chopra

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Deepak Chopra

Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.

Debbi Fields

I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

Debbi Fields

The easiest thing any of us can do is give up. It doesn't matter how many no's you go through.

Debbi Fields

Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing.

Anthony Marra

The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was right around the time I was giving up on a doomed, never-to-be-seen first novel. While I saw it could be something bigger, in hindsight fortuitous timing was as responsible as anything.

Anna Quindlen

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Donald Trump

I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up!

Chuck Yeager

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Andrew Jackson

There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.

Amy Tan

Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.

Amit Bhatia

In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

Anthony Bourdain

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

Andy Rooney

Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.

Andy Stanley

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

Andre Gide

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

Angel Haze

You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.

Amanda Holden

I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.

Amanda Schull

Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.

Amanda Peet

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

Anne Fortier

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.