Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tamora Pierce

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

Tom Robbins

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

Steve Almond

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

Stephen Covey

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

Stephen Hawking

It matters if you don't just give up.

Stanislav Grof

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Stanislaw Lem

The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.

Sigmund Freud

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Sigmund Freud

When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

Emma Forrest

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Linton Brooks

The demonstration, which ends on Friday, is the first one we have held in China, and in fact the first one we have held outside the US.

George Steiner

This was all about a side piece, a girlfriend and it is my sister who ends up murdered.

Paul Chryst

When you first watch the film, the ends jump out at you and the 'backers. But the more you watch it, I think their inside guys do a heck of a job and are good players. There's no question, we have to protect the quarterback. If you don't do that, it'll be a long day throwing.

Dave Stewart

We were really unfulfilled last year by going out early. That really disappointed us. When someone tail ends you like that it's really disappointing. I had never been knocked out of a race under yellow before. We got a wave-around from the pace car, so it had been yellow for several laps.

Johns Hopkins

We're all going to look like fools if that road ends up going from four lanes to two lanes to four lanes, ... I wish we could get more things, but in my heart I don't think we're going to get any more.

Todd Walker

When people have no place to put something, it ends up in the garage or closet. A large percentage say they're going to do something about it - that's where we come into play.