Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Zamperini

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

Louisa May Alcott

. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Lou Holtz

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

Lou Holtz

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

John Green

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

John Goodman

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

John Gay

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

John Ford

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

John Flanagan

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.

John F. Kennedy

I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

John F. Kennedy

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

Jonathan Krohn

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

Jonathan Ive

In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.

Jonathan Haidt

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.

Jonathan Haidt

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

Jonathan Davis

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

Jonathan Carroll

Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

Jonathan Edwards

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

Jonathan Edwards

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

Jonah Lomu

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I dont give up. Never have. Never will.

Jonas Salk

One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

Jonas Salk

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

Jon Secada

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

Jon Runyan

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.

Jonah Lehrer

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

Jonah Hill

Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

Jonah Goldberg

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.

Jon Stewart

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

Jon Stewart

If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.

Jon Stewart

Whenever you take over something that is popular and has a fanatical following that loves it, you're never going to please everyone. The trick is to have enough wherewithal to follow through with what you want to do with it and give it time to evolve.

Jon Stewart

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

Jon Stewart

North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.

Jon Stewart

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?