Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Ponder

I give thanks for ever increasing health, youth and beauty.

Carson Palmer

It feels good to give your fans something to feel good about.

Carrot Top

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

Carson McCullers

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

Carson McCullers

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

Carson McCullers

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Carol Ann Duffy

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

Alan Dean Foster

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

Alain Badiou

We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.

Al Yankovic

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

Alain de Botton

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.

Alain de Botton

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

Aimee Mullins

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Charles R. Swindoll

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

Charles R. Swindoll

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Charles Dance

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

Charles Colson

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Charles Colson

Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

Charles Darwin

Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

Charles Darwin

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

Charles Darwin

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.

Cancer is such a frightening and emotional roller coaster. It's a ride we all want to get off! My best advice is, find the 'glue' that will hold you together - whether it's religion, family, friends, music, yoga, a hobby or a cancer support group. Even our pets can be amazing healers. Be patient and don't give up. Trust me when I say you will come out changed and stronger on the other end of this.

Brandy Norwood

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

Brandy Norwood

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

Brandy Norwood

I'm very proud of myself because I have come so close to just giving up and I haven't done that.

I've been to Canada, and they love - oh my God, they love their stand-up comedy in Canada. I've been overseas to do shows for the troops all over the Middle East, and I actually went to China recently and did shows, not for the troops, but just for local Chinese people, and Americans that have moved there, and things like that. It was fantastic. They got it. They're way smarter than we give them credit for.

Bradley Cooper

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

Bonnie Raitt

I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.

Bobby Darin

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself

Barry Humphries

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.