Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rand Paul

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

Rand Paul

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

Give your best to the challenges. And what you get will be even better.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.

Rafael Correa

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

Serena Williams

I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can't go out and say, 'I want a bag of never-say-die spirit.' It's not for sale. It has to be innate.

Sean Connery

Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.

Mick Jagger

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

Michael W. Smith

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

Michael Phelps

I have had extreme ups and downs. The biggest thing I learned after I broke my wrist is to never give up. Nothing in life will ever come easy. It depends on how you deal with those obstacles and how you overcome those obstacles. If you can overcome them, you're a stronger person. If you make mistakes along the way, as long as you never make that same mistake again, you're a successful person.

Michael Pitt

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

Michael Pollan

There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.

Michael Leunig

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Michael Landon

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Sienna Miller

It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.

Shiv Khera

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

Sholom Aleichem

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Shonda Rhimes

It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our minds, to accept that things are different, that they'll never be the same, for better or for worse. We have to be willing to give up what we used to believe. The more we're willing to accept what is and not what we thought, we'll find ourselves exactly where we belong.

Seth MacFarlane

There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

Sebastian Junger

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

Sebastian Faulks

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Scott Stossel

There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

Scott Snyder

You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.

Scott Glenn

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

Seth Godin

Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

Seth Godin

Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

Seth Godin

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.