Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ryan Lochte

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

Tyler Hilton

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

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.

Willie Aames

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

William S. Burroughs

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

William S. Burroughs

Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry; for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Rodman Philbrick

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

Robert South

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.

Saul Alinsky

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

Rohinton Mistry

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

Roger Scruton

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Winston Churchill

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Jodi Picoult

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

Juno Temple

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

Nathan Fillion

It's hard to shake a stick at success.

Martin Lawrence

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've decided to stick with love.

Margaret Cho

A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don't know where they are. Comics stick around.