Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anita Shreve

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

Ann Beattie

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

Anjelica Huston

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

Anita Roddick

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.

Andrew Vachss

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

Anchee Min

I think about giving up. I almost do.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

Chuck Palahniuk

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Chuck Palahniuk

This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

Chuck Palahniuk

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Chuck Palahniuk

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

Chuck Palahniuk

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Chuck Palahniuk

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

Chuck Eddy

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Christopher Reeve

People may never understand this - and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not - but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.

Christopher Paolini

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up.

Anson Dorrance

What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.

Angelina Jolie

There was a time when I was really going to give up acting-- right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine.

Andrew Cohen

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

Anthony de Mello

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

Amy Chua

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

Amy Chua

Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Alma Gluck

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

Alva Myrdal

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

Anita Diament

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Andrew Forrest

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

Anthony Hopkins

By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you

Alicia Keys

Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me

Alicia Keys

Why give up before we try?

Anna Sui

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

Angie Stone

Many artists give up after a while.

Andrew Miller

But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard

Allen Ginsberg

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.