Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.

Richelle Mead

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

Richelle Mead

Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage,

Richelle Mead

You'd give up drinking to go see your dad?" "Well, not permanently," he said. "That'd be ridiculous. But maybe I could switch to something slightly cheaper for a while. Like...slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.

Richelle Mead

The world of the dead wonʹt give you up a second time.

Richelle Mead

This is very domestic of you," he said. "It's kinda hot, really. Giving me all sorts of fantasies about you in an apron vacuuming my house.

Richelle Mead

Okay,' I said quietly. 'I'll do whatever you say. Just remember not to talk down to me. I'm not your student anymore. I'm your equal now.' He glanced away from the side of the road just long enough to give me a surprised look. 'You've always been my equal, Roza.

Richelle Mead

In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you." "I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.

Richelle Mead

Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

Richelle Mead

He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Paris—but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises.

Richelle Mead

It's worth it. It's worth giving up the sun and magic.

Richard Avedon

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

Renny Harlin

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

Rebecca West

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Ryan Kwanten

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

Ryan Lochte

One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love.

Russell Baker

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.

Roy Yamaguchi

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

Ruben Studdard

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

Rose McIver

I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

Rose Byrne

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

Rose Kennedy

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Rose Macaulay

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

Ronda Rousey

I don't shy away from any questions. I'm not scared of any question. I'll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism I'm not scared of people disliking me.

Ron Atkinson

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

Ron Atkinson

You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area...

Tyler Hilton

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

Tyler Hilton

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

Tyler Oakley

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

Tyler Perry

Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

Tyler Perry

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Tryon Edwards

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

Toyo Ito

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.