Giving Up Quotes - Page 39

• I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

  Margaret Millar

  Afterlife, Mind, Return

  J.J. MARRIC; MARGARET MILLAR; BILL KNOX (1977). “GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT”

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• Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Taken, Greater

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• ... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

  Margaret Halsey

  Self, Alcohol, Cigarette

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• Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing.

  Debbi Fields

  Attitude, People, Bankers

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• ... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

  Fanny Burney

  Giving, Way, Remarks

  Fanny Burney (1796). “Camilla: Or, a Picture of Youth”, p.220

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• I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Self, Giving

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• I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

  Delia Ephron

  Worry, Want, Able

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Lying, Men, Civilization

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• In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Letting Go, Prayer, Doors

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• I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.

  Herschel Walker

  Motivational, People, Trying

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• I have traveled many times outside Iran, and have discussed the issue [of the Iranian nuclear project]. I have been asked for my opinion and that of the Iranian Jewish community, and I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes. The Iranian people must not give up this right under any circumstances - and indeed, it will not.

  Maurice Motamed

  Technology, Iran, Issues

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• If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

  Keariene Muizz

  Hurt, Writing, Painting

  Interview with John Rogers, 2008.

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• That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

  Louis Zamperini

  Sports, Country, Don't Give Up

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• There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Sweet, Children

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• For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Country, Doors, White Privilege

  "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack". Peggy McIntosh, Peace and Freedom Magazine (by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), July/August 1989.

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• Don't give up on something just because you think you can't do it.

  Chanda Kochhar

  Don't Give Up, Thinking, Giving

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• Our joys will be doubled and our sorrows will be reduced and we will walk our life in community with the body of Christ. When you are with someone else, you are not nearly as willing to give up. So find a friend, be honest and walk together.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Community, Joy, Sorrow

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• We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.

  Marcus Garvey

  Silly, Hands, Ideas

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• Never give up. In the end it'll all be worth it.

  Leighton Meester

  Ends, Worth It, Giving

  FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Oct 10, 2012

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• If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

  Steve Jobs

  Passion, Giving, Ifs

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• My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.

  Guy Fieri

  Philosophy, Toys, Stills

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• First of all, you have to born with a brain. I mean, you can't be a dummy and say I'm going to become a multi-billionaire some day. But, more than anything else, you have to love what you do, and beyond that, you can't ever give up.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Brain, Firsts

  "The Donalds' TV makeover". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. April 17, 2004.

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• There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, People, Meat

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.

  Marita Bonner

  Death, Pain, Lying

  Marita Bonner (1987). “Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• You should never give up your inner self.

  Clint Eastwood

  Self, Should, Giving

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