Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

Dwight Gooden

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

Dwight Gooden

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

Dwight Howard

A lot of times when I'm in the gym, I might not have that energy but I realize what I'm doing it for and it gives me the strength to do one more extra rep, to do one more set or to push even harder, and to not let whatever obstacle is in front of me stop me from reaching my goal.

Dwyane Wade

Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.

Dwight L. Moody

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.

Dwight L. Moody

The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.

Dwight L. Moody

The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

Dwight L. Moody

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

Courtney Love

I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

Courtney Love

To find your female scream and not withhold is so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

Colin Mochrie

Give me liberty! Or a bran muffin!

Colin Powell

It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.

Colin Powell

I think all of the attention of the world, to include the attention of the Arab world, should be on Saddam Hussein and whether or not he is prepared to give up the weapons of mass destruction that he has used to terrorise the region.

We started to see a groundswell of support. People were giving and giving and giving.

Charlie Villanueva

We should never have been in that position, giving up 39 points in the first quarter, and right there is where we lost the game,

The power of not giving up is always greater than giving up.

Louis C. K.

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

We're trying, obviously, to be very careful. The information that we're giving out... is very limited.

Orson Scott Card

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Paul Simon

The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.

Peace Pilgrim

You must give if you want to receive. Let the center of your being be one of giving, giving, giving. You can't give too much, and you will discover you cannot give without receiving.

Orson Scott Card

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

Orson Scott Card

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

Orson Scott Card

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

Orson Scott Card

As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test.

Ram Dass

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

Ram Dass

Give it all up and you can have it all.

Ram Dass

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them.

Ram Dass

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

Ram Dass

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

Ram Dass

Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.

Ram Dass

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.