Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Jessica Valenti

People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

Jessica Valenti

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

Jessica Valenti

I think that almost all traditional institutions are sexist, and they're probably racist and homophobic, and they're all of these things. But a lot of them, like marriage, are too embedded into the culture to give up.

Jessica Valenti

If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.

Jessica Simpson

I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.

Jessica Simpson

About losing a spot on The Mickey Mouse Club to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera: "I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going.

Jerry Brown

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

Jerry Bridges

The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and...want to give up or try to work something out on our own.

Jerry Bridges

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Jenna Ushkowitz

I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

Jeanne Moreau

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

Jeanne Moreau

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?

Jeanne Moreau

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.

Gloria Feldt

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It nudges you to clarity.

Glenn Reynolds

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

Gloria Allred

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Gloria Gaynor

The better your audience, the more energy you have, and the more energy you have, the better show you do. The better show you do, the more they love it, and the more energy they give back to you.

Gloria Estefan

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

Giacomo Leopardi

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

Georgia O'Keeffe

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

Gerald R. Ford

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

Jim Jarmusch

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

Hunter S. Thompson

sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks...

Hulk Hogan

I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.

Hudson Taylor

If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

Hudson Taylor

So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.

Hudson Taylor

I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never give in and never give up.

Howard E. Wasdin

The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position.