Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline Wozniacki

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

Caroline Wozniacki

I never give up. Doesn't matter what the score is.

Caroline Knapp

Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.

Evo Morales

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

Evander Holyfield

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

Eva Gabor

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

Eva LaRue

We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!

Christopher Hitchens

A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.

Murray Gell-Mann

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

Mo Udall

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

Mindy Kaling

Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

Mindy Kaling

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

Mike Redmond

I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.

Mike Royko

Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.

Mike Rowe

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

Miguel

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

Harry Styles

I won't give up till we surrender!

Hanley Ramirez

I played because I loved it. It was incredible when they told me they were going to sign me and they were going to give me money.

Hanna Rosin

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Frank Zappa

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

Fred Perry

I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

Fred Rogers

Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. . . . We'll discover talents we never dreamed we had and fervently wish for others at moments we feel we desperately need them. As time goes on, we'll probably discover that we have more to give and can give more than we ever imagined. But we'll also find that there are limits to our giving, and that may be hard for us to accept.

Fred Rogers

Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.

Fred Rogers

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

Fred Rogers

I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.

Frank Herbert

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Frank Herbert

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

George Hamilton

The first thing my agent told me in 1959 was he said you have to have something recognizable that people will remember. "What are you? Do you have cleft in your chin? You have a Jimmy Stewart kind of talk?" And I thought I don't know what I can give them that will be different.

George Hamilton

I remember a meeting I had at MGM. It was at the end of their reign. They say we have you under contract, and because you're under contract, we'd like to you to work. I said, well, that seems fair. But if it's a really good movie, they were going to give it to a particular actor that was not under contract.The bottom line was they were going to pay you more if it was a bad one and pay you less if it was a good one.

George H. W. Bush

If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I'd have to say, don't neglect your family. Politics is important, sitting at the head table is glamorous. Traveling around the world, trying to do something for world peace was wonderful. But . . . Family and friends and faith are what are really matters in life. And I know that. I see it so clearly now.

George H. W. Bush

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.

Harold Brodkey

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.