Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlton Heston

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

Charley Pride

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

Charles Krauthammer

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Aidan Chambers

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

Ai Weiwei

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

Ai Weiwei

For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

Bobby Bowden

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

Billy Joel

Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.

Billy Joel

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

Bill Russell

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

Bill Richardson

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. It is education that allows us to see that we are in this for the long haul, and it is education that will give us the tools we need to build a better future.

Bill Richardson

Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.

Bill Parcells

I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.

Bill Johnson

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

Bill Johnson

My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

Bill Johnson

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

This was a shock. You are giving Iraq to the Iranians.

Warrick Dunn

We'd have a list of charities, and say, 'These are the ones that effective. Which ones do you want to do?' This lets guys vote on where they want to put money, and we can put money in different areas, ... Guys want to see where the money's going to be used, not just that you're giving it to somebody and one half's going to overhead and one's half going someplace else. They want to know that it's being used and used right.

Jane Birkin

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

Jandy Nelson

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

Jane Austen

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Jane Austen

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

Jane Austen

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Jane Austen

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it...

Jane Austen

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

Jane Austen

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Jane Austen

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

Jane Austen

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Jane Austen

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Jane Austen

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Jamie Zawinski

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

Jamie Zawinski

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.