Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Paul Sartre

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

Georges Bataille

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

Georges Bataille

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

Jeffery Deaver

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

George Benson

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

George Bernard Shaw

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

Frederik Pohl

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

Fred Barnes

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

Franz Kafka

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

Erich Fromm

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Erich Fromm

Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

Enson Inoue

It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up.

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.

Eminem

Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that sh** out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.

Elon Musk

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated

Jay Asher

Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

Jay Asher

I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.

Jay Asher

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

Jason Priestley

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

Jason Patric

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

Harrison Ford

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Harrison Ford

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

Harrison Ford

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Greg Chappell

He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.

Greg Giraldo

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.

Jack Ma

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

C. S. Lewis

When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.

C. S. Lewis

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

Jay-Z

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.