Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Strand

It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.

Marilyn French

I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

Nicole Kidman

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

Nick Cassavetes

I like to give my actors a lot of room.

Nancy Farmer

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

Nancy Farmer

Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

Nana Mouskouri

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

If you can educate Muslims about their biggest enemy, and if you can solve the problem, the ideological problem, it doesn't give an immediate result, but it's the best thing over the long term.

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.

Seth Godin

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money

Seth Godin

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

Seth Godin

In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.

Seth Godin

Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.

Seth Godin

We fail when we give up too soon.

Seth Godin

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Ray Charles

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

Ray Charles

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Tom Hiddleston

Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give.

Tom Daschle

If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

Tom Cruise

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

Tom Cruise

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

Solange Knowles

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

Sitting Bull

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

Sister Souljah

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

Sinead O'Connor

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people;