Gave Up Quotes - Page 14

• Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my old chores as Speaker of the House. I gave up the second most important job in the Government for one that didn't amount to a hill of beans. I spent eight long years as Mr. Roosevelt's spare tire.

  John Nance Garner

  Jobs, Mistake, Government

  1963 In the Saturday Evening Post, 2 Nov.

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• I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

  Harriet Harman

  Educational, People, Generations

  "Clegg Announces Child Poverty and Social Mobility Commission" by Allegra Stratton and Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. April 05, 2011.

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• The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Thinking, Nba, Trying

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• Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

  Laura Linney

  People, Wish, Different

  Interview with Matthew Broderick, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2010.

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• I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

  Susan Strasberg

  Would Be, Pieces, Pay

  Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

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• Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying... We've shopped till we dropped alright, face down on the floor.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Unique, People, Roles

  "World’s Designated Shoppers Drop" by Barbara Ehrenreich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2008.

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• I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.

  Sophie Hannah

  Jobs, Husband, College

  "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.

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• I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Drinking, Afternoon, Worst

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• When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been.

  Stephen King

  Stupid, Kids, Writing

  "Part two of the full Stephen King interview". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!

  T. B. H. Stenhouse

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

  Bob Newhart

  Writing, Men, Years

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 2, 2003.

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• I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

  Omar Sharif

  Passion, My Passion, I Can

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• We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Feet, People, Fans

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• A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Heart, Loss, Wife

  "Lot's Wife". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by A.S.Kline,

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• If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Joy, Citizens

  Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.23

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• When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

  Frank Zappa

  Republican

  "Thicke of the Night" with Alan Thicke, April 28, 1984.

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• I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Giving Up, Medicine

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• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Thinking, Years, Balance

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Oct 28, 2013

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• I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

  Gary Coleman

  Country, People, Earth

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• There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

  Deidre Hall

  Knows

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• I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy.

  Jerry Ferrara

  Cutting, Thinking, Two

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

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• I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Important, Able, Different

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

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• My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

  David Cassidy

  Mother, Careers, Looks

  "David Cassidy: My family values" by Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I fell into a state of mental stagnation, my Master could do nothing for me. But I never gave up trying to keep in tune with him by cheerfully performing whatever he asked me to do. "I have come to him for God-realization," I reasoned, "and I must listen to his advice."

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

  Jonathan Franzen

  People, Way, Weirdness

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