Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Demetri Martin

A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.

Dean Koontz

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Daniel Goleman

Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.

Daniel Handler

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Daniel Handler

A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

Daniel Handler

There are some things we might not know,but that doesnt mean we should give up.We can find out what we need to know.We can find out everything

Daniel Handler

I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.

Daniel Handler

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.

Daniel Handler

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

Damon Lindelof

Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.

Dan Ariely

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

Dan Ariely

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Craig Ferguson

There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the power to shut off the Internet. Al Gore is strongly opposed to it. Not because he invented the Internet. Because he did. But because he just signed up for Match.com.

Conor Maynard

Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.

Connie Willis

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

Connie Willis

There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.

Conor McGregor

There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.

Coco Chanel

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu

Clarice Lispector

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Clarence Day

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

Elizabeth Strout

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

Elizabeth Taylor

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

Eli Manning

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

Eli Manning

You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.