Given Up Quotes - Page 8

• If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

  Denis Diderot

  Son, Soul, Devil

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

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Cancer, Winning, Given

  "Elizabeth Edwards loses battle with cancer", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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• 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.

  Caitlin Moran

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Cities, People, Victory

  Henry Walter Bates (1863). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons”, p.40

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• I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry.

  Emily VanCamp

  Guy, Given, Ifs

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• [Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for instance, that economics should govern all of social life, to such a degree that it becomes increasingly difficult to challenge it.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Challenges, Degrees

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Animal, Men, Perfection

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• 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.

  Joey Santiago

  Believe, Night, Bed

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• If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Optimistic, Levels, Given

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Names, Two

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• I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.

  Patrick deWitt

  Heart, Night, Thinking

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books

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• 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.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Wise, Thinking, Hair

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• I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

  Marcel Proust

  Women, Squares, Roots

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.193, Modern Library

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• For I've finally realized that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.

  Gloria Estefan

  Eye, People, Stronger

  "Song: 'Always Tomorrow'". 1992.

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• An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

  St. Jerome

  Sacrifice, Ethics, Given

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• If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

  Stephen King

  Love, Heart, Beast

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

  Kurt Sutter

  Lazy, Depth, Records

  "Captain Qwitter and the Battle of the super cunts" by Kurt Sutter, sutterink.blogspot.ru. August 14, 2011.

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• Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by champagne drunk out of their toeshoes till dawn, in the company of financiers ... no, most of their time is spent in filthy rehearsal halls, inhaling dust, or else in class, daily, year in year out, practicing, practicing even after they are already prima ballerinas.

  Gore Vidal

  Night, Dust, Years

  Gore Vidal (2011). “Death in the Fifth Position”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Relief, Given

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving Up, Soul, Puppets

  "The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

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• It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Retirement, Long, Doe

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• If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.

  Itay Talgam

  School, Reality, Organization

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• 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.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Giving Up, Would Be, Given

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Clothes, Long

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works”, p.89, 谷月社

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• When I was ambushed by global warming advocates recently - no, they haven't given up - they asked me the same questions they always ask: "What if you're wrong?" and "If you're wrong will you apologize to future generations?" I always answer, "What if you're wrong? Will you apologize to my twenty kids and grandkids for the largest tax increase in American history?" They usually don't have anything to say after that.

  James Inhofe

  Kids, What If, Answers

  "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future". Book by Jim Inhofe, 2012.

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