To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible. — John Bonifaz Copy Share Image
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept. — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't… — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I always tell myself, 'Keep on fighting.' I wasn't always a good diver—I had to work my way up to where I… — Christina Loukas Copy Share Image
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway.… — Mel Smith Copy Share Image
NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
My friends ... they usually rib me about how I just sleep in and watch Oprah and that I don't really have… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work,… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me… — Mike Conley, Jr Copy Share Image
The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus. — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
