Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Voskamp

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

Andy Pettitte

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

Albert Camus

Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom

Albert Camus

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

Albert Camus

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Albert Camus

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

Clint Eastwood

You should never give up your inner self.

Danny McBride

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

David Antin

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

David Attenborough

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

Donatella Versace

Giving up my heels was harder than giving up the drugs.

Don McLean

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

Douglas Adams

Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.' 'Why not?' 'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.

Doris Roberts

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

Doris Roberts

I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

Doris Lessing

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Colin Powell

It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure that he is cooperating or he [Saddam Hussein] is acting in a way that could give us comfort, or should give the international community comfort, that he is giving up his weapons of mass destruction. He continues to give us statements that suggest he is not in possession of weapons of mass destruction when we know he is.

Colin Powell

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Daniel Pipes

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

Cynthia McKinney

It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

Cory Monteith

But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it.

Clive James

The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

Drew Roy

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

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.

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.