Gave Up Quotes - Page 12

• So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

  Nigel Dennis

  Years, Cameras, Twenties

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• I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Real, Anger, Self

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• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Adventure, Ideas

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• My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Sex, Lying, Aunt

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2014). “The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Thinking, Long Ago, Needs

  "EL Doctorow: 'I don't have a style, but the books do'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

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• [democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

  David Frum

  War, Jail, Vietnam

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• It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

  Emile Zola

  Heart, Loving Life, People

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• Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions... Sometimes people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties during a crisis, hoping to gain some measure of security. Yet nothing would please terrorists more than if we willingly gave up our cherished liberties because of their actions.

  Ron Paul

  Strong, War, Sacrifice

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• And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Giving Up, Israel, Land

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• But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Personal Things

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do it. Still think she's not qualified to be President?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Sacrifice, Serving God

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fighting, Evil, Doctrine

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.162, University of Georgia Press

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• I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was pus and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.

  Josh Hartnett

  Mom, Cutting, Blood

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• The fear of rejection really kind of stunts your growth as a person.  I mean, it's like a friend of mine says, who cares if you fail?  Who cares if you fail?  It's like babies try to get up and walk all the time and they keep falling down.  If we just gave up, we'd all be crawling around.

  John Rzeznik

  Baby, Fall, Mean

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• I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

  Roz Chast

  Trying, Way, My Way

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• I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise, for the sake of cell phones and Jet Skis.

  George Carlin

  Country, Adventure, Thinking

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• I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Men, People, Way

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• My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which Im very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.

  Erika Slezak

  Husband, Grateful, Kids

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• I gave up shame a long time ago.

  John Lithgow

  Long, Shame, Long Time

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• I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

  Branford Marsalis

  Culture, Tonight, Shows

  "Branford Marsalis: It's All About The Band". Interview with Russ Musto, www.allaboutjazz.com. January 12, 2005.

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• It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

  Noah Wyle

  Audience, Therapy, Captives

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sweet, Eye, Soul

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “The Halloween Tree”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

  John Green

  Want, Had Enough, Ghost

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• It’s been me all along,” said September slowly. “Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtn’t just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. I’ve got to see it through, don’t you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because she’s missing the part of her that’s me. We’ve got to come together again. And he can’t do a thing about that.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Queens, Hands, Together Again

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