Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

George Benson

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

George Bernard Shaw

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

George Bernard Shaw

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

George Bernard Shaw

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

George Bernard Shaw

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

George Bernard Shaw

Why not give Christianity a trial?

Gena Showalter

I'd stood my ground against him. I wasn't going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.

Gary Larson

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

Gary Neville

We don't give in and we don't stop. We are relentless and in the end we usually get to where we want to be.

Gale Harold

I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

Galileo Galilei

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

Galileo Galilei

The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.

Frederik Pohl

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

When you give of yourself, it's draining.

Freeman Dyson

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

Freeman Dyson

The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

Fred Barnes

Never miss it - that's the second biggest compliment I'd give to RealClearPolitics.com. The first is that it has become indispensable to anyone, in or outside of journalism, who's interested in politics, policy, or world affairs.

Fred Barnes

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

Franz Kafka

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

Franz Kafka

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Erica Durance

The best beauty advice I ever received is to keep skin hydrated and limit harsh exposure to the sun. If you are set on the tanned look, there are plenty of great creams that will give you a healthy-looking glow.

Erich Fromm

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Erich Fromm

Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge

Erich Fromm

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

Erich Fromm

Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

Erica Jong

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

Erica Jong

Love gives without taking

Erica Jong

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person.

Enson Inoue

It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up.

Enson Inoue

To truly try is to give all you have, when you have nothing left.

Eoin Colfer

...This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it.” Butler would not give up. “Listen to yourself. You sound like a... like a good guy! There’s nothing in this for you.