Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Paul Sartre

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

Georges Bernanos

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.

Georges Bataille

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

Georges Bataille

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

Georges Bataille

Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.

Georges Bataille

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

George Whitefield

Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

George Saintsbury

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

George Saunders

There's also a way that you have of being precise but also allusive, that works well for me - it's something about the open-hearted way you frame your queries. Instead of feeling daunted or discouraged, I feel excited to give whatever it is a try. This takes a lot of editorial wisdom and confidence - to know just how to get the writer to take that extra chance.

George Saunders

All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.

Jeffery Deaver

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

Jean Paul

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Emily Saliers

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

Eminem

Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that sh** out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.

Elon Musk

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated

Javier Bardem

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

Jay Asher

Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

Jay Asher

I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.

Jay Asher

Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.

Jay Asher

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

Jason Statham

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyones got a free range for you.

Jasper Fforde

Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

Jason Priestley

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

Jason Patric

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

Jason Reitman

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

Jason Kidd

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

Jason Mraz

You come out of a store and they give you seventy-five cents change or something, rather than drop it I would always place it in the community. Sometimes I'd flip it into the hat of a busker or give it to a homeless person. But what I most enjoyed was putting it on a windowsill or on a bench seat or somewhere where I knew that the community would get it.

Jason Mraz

Well, I won't give up on us, Even if the skies get rough I'm giving you all my love, I'm still looking up

Jason Mraz

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.