Given Up Quotes

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.

At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

Nobody is lost until somebody has given up.

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

Hell is given up so reluctantly by those who don't expect to go there

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.