Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Jon Stewart

And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k.

Jon Stewart

Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

Jon Stewart

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

Joyce Carol Oates

When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

Joyce Carol Oates

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

Joyce Carol Oates

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.

Kate Walsh

I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

Katee Sackhoff

Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for

Kate Winslet

I love to cook. I could never give that up.

Kate Adie

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

Julie Bishop

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Julie Andrews

It's all about giving back, helping people and encouraging people. I love to do that.

Judith Light

I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you

Judith McNaught

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

Judith McNaught

Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.

Judith Martin

Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism.

Josh Groban

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

Joseph Hall

It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.

Joseph Hall

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

Joseph Hall

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

Katherine Anne Porter

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

James Madison

Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.

James Madison

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

James Madison

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

James MacArthur

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.

James MacArthur

Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.

James M. Barrie

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

James Lawrence

Don't give up the ship!

James Lawrence

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

Joe Nichols

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.

Jim Woodring

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