Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archie Panjabi

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

Ben Parr

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

There is but one secret to success: never give up.

Ben Okri

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’

Barbara Lee

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Ashley Young

If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.

Bashar al-Assad

I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Barbara Pym

Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? . . . I expect it will be sit and wait.

Barbara Pym

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

Barbara Mikulski

Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, "Give her a chance here." And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Augusto Pinochet

The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.

Augustus

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

Augusten Burroughs

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Arthur Mitchell

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Arthur Miller

Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

Art Garfunkel

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

Art Modell

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.

Sathya Baba

LOVE lives by giving and forgiving.  Self lives by getting and forgetting.

So, giving this time of year is very important.

Dennis Prager

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

Dennis Prager

First tell the truth, then give your opinion.

Dennis Prager

Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc

Denis Diderot

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

Dee Brown

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted

Debra Wilson

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

Debra Winger

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

Dee Dee Myers

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

Dean Rusk

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

Dieter Rams

Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down to the smallest detail Protects the environment Good design is as little design as possible.