Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’

Barbara Lee

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Ashley Young

If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.

Bashar al-Assad

I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Barbara Pym

Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? . . . I expect it will be sit and wait.

Barbara Pym

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

Barbara Mikulski

Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, "Give her a chance here." And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.

Ben Rattray

Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

Bea Arthur

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

Bear Bryant

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.

Bear Bryant

I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

Barbara Deming

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Avi Rubin

I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

Austin Stowell

Morgan Freeman is a very giving actor.

Ava Gardner

Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

Ashley Greene

I travel a lot so I do everything I can to keep my skin fresh and hydrated. Whenever I fly, I make sure I have a clean face so I can give my skin a break.

Bernie Siegel

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

Benjamin Graham

Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

Bruce Sterling

Information wants you to give me a dollar.

Bruce Springsteen

You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

Bruce Springsteen

I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

Brian Tracy

The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.

Brian Tracy

The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.

Brian Tracy

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.

Brian Tracy

The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.

Brian Tracy

Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?

Brian Tracy

The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.

Brian Tracy

Continuously give without recollecting and get without overlooking dependably.