Given Up Quotes
Given Up Quote of the day
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.
If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.
If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.
I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now.
The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?
At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.
Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.
I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.
A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.