Giving Up Quotes - Page 36

• Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

  George Eliot

  Fate, Thinking, Mind

  1860 The Mill on the Floss, bk.5, ch.1.

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• The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Art, Order

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3535, Delphi Classics

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• I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up

  Scooter Braun

  Giving, Impossible, Strive

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• I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

  Alberto Manguel

  Memories, Book, Nostalgia

  Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.305, Penguin

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• As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.

  Francois Fenelon

  Light, Grace, Degrees

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.264, 1895.

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• When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Democracy, Firsts, Threatened

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.

  Sarah Vowell

  Race, Mind, Puddles

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

  John C. Maxwell

  Adversity, People, Overcoming

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• Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils". Book by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, 1986.

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• If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

  Georges Bataille

  Perfect, Viewpoints, Action

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.27, A&C Black

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• It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred records of their country are but collections of myths and fables.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, Father, People

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.314, Library of Alexandria

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• At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South and North shall come;When the sinner is dismayed,And the just man is afraid,Then Heaven be thy aid,Poor Tom.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Men, Islands, Hands

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1846). “The Poems of John G.C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life”, p.70

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• I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

  Alfred Nobel

  Men, Hands, Dreamer

  "Nobel, Dynamite and Peace". Book by Ragnar Sohlman, p. 249, 1929.

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• The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

  Nicholas Lore

  Careers, Perfect, Design

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• The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Becoming

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

  Richard Louv

  Thinking, People, Adults

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• Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.

  Stewart Brand

  Believe, Fighting, Discipline

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.223, Penguin

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• To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Love, Suicide, Disease

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Stubborn, Junk

  Interview with Dennis Widmyer, chuckpalahniuk.net. July 30, 2007.

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• It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Weapons, Busy

  "Candidates tackle Iraq". The debate at Washington University, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children... and they're all going to do this... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it.

  Stevie Nicks

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  "Rumours Exposed: The Unauthorized Biography of Fleetwood Mac". Book by Leah Furman, 2003.

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• My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. That you be willing to pay Black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country. That you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills Black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people, and I haven't met any like that.

  Sister Souljah

  Mother, Country, Father

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

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• One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society can comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism. If a group of people - even a very large group - wanted to purchase land and own it in common, they would be free to do so. The libertarian legal order would require only that no one be coerced into joining or giving up his property.

  David Boaz

  Order, Land, Differences

  "The Coming Libertarian Age". Cato Policy Report, January/February 1997.

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• It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Creative, Important, Trying

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 3: "Travels Abroad", p. 55, 1991.

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• Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Real, Reading, Strange

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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