Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.

Haruki Murakami

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

Haruki Murakami

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

Haruki Murakami

Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.

Haruki Murakami

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

Hans Rosling

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

Hans Zimmer

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

Harlan Coben

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

Hamdi Ulukaya

But as the business grows, you get more attention and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give it less to what you're doing.

Gustav Stresemann

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

Gustave Flaubert

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

Gustave Flaubert

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

Greg Abbott

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

Greg Bear

To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.

Greg Behrendt

A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it.

Gordon Ramsay

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create; for he is making an outline and a shape. Mohamet created, when he forbade wine but allowed five wives: he created a very big thing, which we have still to deal with.

John Dryden

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

John Dryden

There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force. This diction of his, I must once again say, is never to be copied; and since it cannot, he will appear but lame in the best translation.

John Dryden

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

John Mayer

Someday I'll fly Someday I'll soar Someday I'll be so damn much more Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for

John M. Ford

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

John Lyly

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

John Lloyd Young

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

John Lubbock

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

John Lydon

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

John Lydon

If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

John Locke

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

John Lewis

Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

John Lewis

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

John Lewis

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed