Giving Up Quotes - Page 22

• “I winked and locked my arm in Carter's, and we stood there, watching Dean stroll away. "You know the guy's never gonna give up," Carter nudged me, letting out a sigh. "We'd have really pretty babies, huh?" "Yup. They'd be rad little Brangelinas, running around tearing the place up." "Yeah, you're right. My rejection is such a disservice to the world..."

  Rachel Wade

  Running, Baby, Rejection

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• Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little piece of your autonomy in order to become part of the group. And every group, of course, has its hierarchies and rules- spoken and unspoken. It is like learning to live once again in a family- which, of course, is the setting where all learning begins.

  Alice Steinbach

  School, Order, Groups

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• What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Wanted, Deliberate

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

  Walker Percy

  Ambition, Ordinary, Said

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Have faith in yourself.
  Think yes not no.
  Live life to the full.
  Never give up.

  Richard Branson

  Live Life, Thinking, Have Faith

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• Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.

  John Updike

  Religious, Philosophical, Thinking

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• I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

  William Kamkwamba

  Don't Give Up, People, Focus

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• Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Men, Land, Patriotism

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1991). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition”, Harpercollins

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• The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Vocabulary, Political

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms". Book by W. H. Auden, and Louis Kronenberger, p. 306, 1962.

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• Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.

  Glenn Kurtz

  Dream, Athlete, Loss

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• Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didn’t like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave.

  Hiroo Onoda

  Mother, Brave, Complaining

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• Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice... It’s about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel.

  Jim Carrey

  Believe, Sacrifice, Heaven

  Interview with Michael Fleming, www.playboy.com. April 1, 2011.

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• If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.

  Darren LaCroix

  Long, Goal, Bumps

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• If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

  Gilbert Highet

  Girl, Teaching, Boys

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Mps, Law, Males

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

  David Gerrold

  Hurt, Stars, Mcdonalds

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• You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Moving, God Love, Antagonism

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• Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

  Lewis Thomas

  Animal, Self, Mystery

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Life, Riddle, Shrinks

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.965, Oxford University Press

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• Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like contentment, which sounds like settling, letting the fire go out. Actually, peace of mind allows you to go more deeply into the world and consequently to experience more excitement and ecstasy. The fire burns brighter, fueled by awareness instead of anxiety.

  Jennifer James

  Peace, Mean, Fire

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• Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.

  Wayne Dyer

  Winning, Losing, Loser

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Sex, Men

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• I want to give up being a bullet I've been a bullet too long The question is Can you give up being a killer?

  John Agard

  Long, Want, Bullets

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• I won't give up my day job of design.

  Kathy Ireland

  Jobs, Design, I Won't Give Up

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• To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

  Paul Twitchell

  Creative, Creation, Force

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