Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eve Ensler

Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.

George Carlin

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

Jim Carrey

Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice.... It’s about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel.

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.

Harvey Milk

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.

Frank Herbert

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

Harold Brodkey

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

Iris Johansen

In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

Gloria Steinem

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Marc Cherry

Certain actresses really don't like to wear bras. And we try to accommodate them as much as humanly possible.... So we've done a lot of blurring.

James Loy

But, ... we can now do so effectively and when necessary so as to make certain that we get these vessels to stop.

Khurshid Kasuri

But what the president offered today was that, as a starter, we could have it in certain areas,

Talat Masood

But there are of course certain people, an important segment, which think he has compromised too much.

John Burnham

Burgoyne, he had style, a certain charisma, and charm and humor about him.

Roy Romer

But even if I were not term-limited, I would say I need to move on anyhow, ... There is a certain freshness you need as governor and none of us need to be growing stale in office.

Michael Clarke

But God is there and He's good ? I'm certain of that.

John Mack

Basically, with few exceptions, we have missed the alternative class. There's certain products we've not been involved in that we should be involved in and will invest in.