Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cleese

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Louise Brown

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

John Cena

Thank you guys. Thank you for never giving up on me.

Nelson Mandela

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

Marilyn Monroe

Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept -— as much as one can bear.

Pete Earley

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Peter Lowe

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

Lesley Stahl

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

Colum McCann

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

Jack Malvey

The statement will not tell the final story. I believe the Fed finale really is data dependent.

Patti Davis

I speak for many others when I say that none of us believe a cure is just around the corner. We believe it's around a very wide bend.

Azizah Ismail

I sometimes think about Mahatma Gandhi: when he was arrested...the movement continued. That is what I think I'm seeing now. And I believe that the reform movement is in the hearts of the people.

Chris Rich

I sincerely believe that this is the last chance to keep this island community, older than the nation itself, from slipping away into history.

Gisele Bundchen

I've been waiting, like, a quarter of century to be a quarter of a century, can you believe it?

Moira Kelly

I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

Ron Miller

I've come up there and have seen her scrubbing the floors. She's such a dynamic person, it's hard to believe she's that age.

Tammy Baldwin

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

Mark DeAugustino

I've been holding the reins, and when I (let go), I do believe they're going to go after it. I think they'll really respond, and when they respond, the sky's the limit.

Clint Eastwood

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

Anna Akhmatova

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Anna Akhmatova

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

Ann Voskamp

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

Ann Voskamp

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

Ann Voskamp

That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.

Ann Voskamp

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

Albert Schweitzer

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

Alane Ferguson

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)