Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alva Myrdal

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

Anne Rivers Siddons

... life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

Anne Sexton

And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope

Anne Rice

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

Anna Deavere Smith

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Anita Diament

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

Andrew Solomon

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

Andrew Solomon

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The question then is, how much are you willing to give?" And I answered, "Anything." A breath later, Zane echoed my response with, "Everything.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.

Ameen Rihani

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly -- I know not which is the greater ...

Andy Murray

I'm incredibly fortunate and it's important to me to make sure that I give back where I can.

Andy Murray

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Andrew Forrest

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

Ambrose Bierce

Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

Anthony Hope

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Anthony Hopkins

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

Anthony Kiedis

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

Anthony Hopkins

By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you

Alicia Keys

If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.

Alicia Keys

If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.

Alicia Keys

Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me

Alicia Keys

Why give up before we try?

Alice Rivlin

One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.

Alice Waters

Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.

Alice Sebold

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Abraham Verghese

No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

Abraham Verghese

Being the first born gives you great patience.

Abraham Lincoln

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.