Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Martin

If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

Matt Ridley

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.

Maya Angelou

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Maya Angelou

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

Maya Angelou

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

Maya Angelou

Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

Maya Angelou

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

Aren't they great? We've been giving them out to our customers.

Right now we're worried about practice (today). We have to get better and concentrate on us right now. Giving up 92 points is on us, that's hustle and personal pride.

Ron Gardenhire

Radke is going to be in the rotation, Silva is going to be in the rotation, Lohse is going to be in the rotation and we're just trying to get them through it. We're in the first month of the season, so you've got to keep giving these guys the ball. What they've done around here and how well they've done around here for such a long time, you just have to keep giving them the ball.

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

Donna Karan

No question about it. I think she's told us that. You know it's not about us dictating, just giving her tools for her to do it.

Northwestern has been scoring a lot of goals, so I think they will be a handful for our defense, but they also have been giving up of a lot of goals. If our backline comes ready to play and our frontline starts scoring some goals this weekend it will be great.

Stuff like that happens in baseball. We have been playing well and when you are giving it all you have sometimes there is just nothing you can do about it. You just have to get ready for tomorrow and get back to playing well.

The money from the foundation, is not only giving us money for the extras - it's helping us with the necessities.

At halftime I told them we probably didn't want to shoot 22 treys in the second half. But we also had to remember that's what they were giving us.

Martin Sorrell

a terribly invidious position by people giving him an earache about this.

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

They started getting mad at each other and yelling. We knew to keep going at them. They started giving up.

Greg Mortenson

They raised 62,340 pennies. These kids, in all their purity and innocence, were reaching out to kids halfway around the world.

Dave Penney

A lot of the guys are giving me a hard time but a lot of them would do the same thing -- that's what they told me. You need a specific type of mindset, I guess.

Ray Bradbury

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. Its my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, Ive won or lost. At sunrise, Im out again, giving it the old try.

A lot of things happen at the last minute when you don't give up. I think we've sent a signal that we're not giving up.

They had the wind in the second half, but we just made some simple mistakes. We aren't finishing, and we're giving up some simple opportunities.

Thomas Mitchell

The way you get (approval) is you demonstrate to the public that you are giving a quality product, which is what Medicaid is supposed to be,

They were giving us Brent on the outside zone. I think we got them tired and our kids really played well.

It's all about giving the voters trust in the system,

It's all about giving students a sense of ownership in the classroom.

It's very common. He had it last year, but not the way we're doing it now. We're giving him (an injection) every week.

It's not like we're giving them carte blanche.

Allen Iverson

It's not like defenses are out there just giving guys 50 and 60 points. You have to look at what's going on this season and realize there are just as many great players playing today as there ever has been in this game.

Mother Teresa

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Dave Goldberg

For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.