Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carson Palmer

It feels good to give your fans something to feel good about.

Carrot Top

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

Carson McCullers

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

Carson McCullers

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

Carson McCullers

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Carol Ann Duffy

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

Alan Dean Foster

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

Alain Badiou

We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.

Al Yankovic

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

Alain de Botton

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.

Alain de Botton

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

Aimee Mullins

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Charles R. Swindoll

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

Charles R. Swindoll

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Charles Dance

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

Charles Colson

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Charles Colson

Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

Charles Darwin

Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

Charles Darwin

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

Charles Darwin

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

Black Kettle

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

Blake Mycoskie

[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.

Blake Mycoskie

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

Blake Mycoskie

TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable.

Blake Mycoskie

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.

Blaise Pascal

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

Blaise Pascal

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Blaise Pascal

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.