Quotes about Given Up

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. Votes: 2

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self. Votes: 2

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. Votes: 2

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit. Votes: 2

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you. Votes: 2

Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement. Votes: 2

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Votes: 2

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly. Votes: 2

I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now. Votes: 2

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. Votes: 2

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them. Votes: 2

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart. Votes: 2

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once. Votes: 2

Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus. Votes: 2

If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming. Votes: 2

I have no regrets.I have spent my life,so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. Votes: 2

A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is. -Cross Marian Votes: 2

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes. Votes: 2

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up. Votes: 0

I have never given up on men easily. Votes: 0

Nobody is lost until somebody has given up. Votes: 0

I have given up considering happiness as relevant. Votes: 0

I love standup and I haven't given it up. Votes: 0

I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has. Votes: 0

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media. Votes: 0

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily. Votes: 0

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up. Votes: 0

If you want to be given everything, give everything up. Votes: 0

The hardest thing I have done is given up power. Votes: 0

I feel much better, now that I've given up hope. Votes: 0

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope. Votes: 0

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up. Votes: 0

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble. Votes: 0

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up. Votes: 0

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up. Votes: 0

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. Votes: 0

When people have given up on happiness they call themselves "realists. Votes: 0

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up. Votes: 0

I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me. Votes: 0

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival. Votes: 0

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes. Votes: 0

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up. Votes: 0

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail. Votes: 0

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago. Votes: 0

We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now! Votes: 0

All my life I've believed in myself. And I have never given up. Votes: 0

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead. Votes: 0

Success is the ability to keep trying when others have already given up! Votes: 0

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. Votes: 0

President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth. Votes: 0

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director. Votes: 0

Hell is given up so reluctantly by those who don't expect to go there Votes: 0

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. Votes: 0

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given. Votes: 0

For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything. Votes: 0

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe. Votes: 0

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me. Votes: 0

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up. Votes: 0

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up. Votes: 0

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. Votes: 0

Every single child should have the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential. Votes: 0

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle. Votes: 0

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. Votes: 0

If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential. Votes: 0

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice. Votes: 0

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing. Votes: 0

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. Votes: 0

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing. Votes: 0

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up Votes: 0

9% would give up sex for the remote control. 91% has already given up sex for the remote control! Votes: 0

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms. Votes: 0

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it. Votes: 0

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years. Votes: 0

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up. Votes: 0

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles. Votes: 0

Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors. Votes: 0

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them. Votes: 0

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security. Votes: 0

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. Votes: 0

When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret. Votes: 0

Everyone is given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you. Votes: 0

You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it? Votes: 0

A smile is a God given sun that lights up our lives in the midst of darkness Votes: 0

We are given the potential to excel, whether we do or not is entirely up to us. Votes: 0

On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that's what music's for. Votes: 0

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again. Votes: 0

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up. Votes: 0

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. Votes: 0

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion. Votes: 0

If you have not given up as yet, failure is not a relevant social status in your life. Votes: 0

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept. Votes: 0

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. Votes: 0

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it. Votes: 0

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. Votes: 0

What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know. Votes: 0

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. Votes: 0

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus. Votes: 0

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction Votes: 0

When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it. Votes: 0

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. Votes: 0

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to. Votes: 0

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus. Votes: 0

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need. Votes: 0

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. Votes: 0

All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic. Votes: 0

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. Votes: 0

No one is strong enough  -  given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game. Votes: 0

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome. Votes: 0

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever. Votes: 0

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. Votes: 0

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. Votes: 0

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money. Votes: 0

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly. Votes: 0

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. Votes: 0

At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse. Votes: 0

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. Votes: 0

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. Votes: 0

I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country. Votes: 0

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago. Votes: 0

I loved fun. I spent my whole life in search of fun. I have not given up that part of myself. Votes: 0

So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this Votes: 0

God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror! Votes: 0

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. Votes: 0

If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward, Votes: 0

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. Votes: 0

Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them. Votes: 0

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key. Votes: 0

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day. Votes: 0

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. Votes: 0

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman. Votes: 0

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them. Votes: 0

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. Votes: 0

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work. Votes: 0

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. Votes: 0

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up. Votes: 0

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. Votes: 0

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad. Votes: 0

If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows. Votes: 0

Encouragement is life.Many people will have given up in life without encouragement. May your words be gracious to those who hear it. Votes: 0

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time. Votes: 0

The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours. Votes: 0

Clothing, hair and make-up are just reflective of how I am feeling at any given moment and that varies from day to day. Votes: 0

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure. Votes: 0

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it. Votes: 0

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. Votes: 0

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up. Votes: 0

We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller. Votes: 0

Marijuana you can give up, I've given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore. Votes: 0

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does. Votes: 0

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. Votes: 0

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf. Votes: 0

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them. Votes: 0

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. Votes: 0

Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience. Votes: 0

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely. Votes: 0

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism. Votes: 0

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. Votes: 0

Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually. Votes: 0

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it. Votes: 0

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it. Votes: 0

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern. Votes: 0

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern. Votes: 0

A woman talks about having sex, and it's like, well, a guy got to have sex with you, so you're stupid. You've given something up. Votes: 0

Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up. Votes: 0

I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people. Votes: 0

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses. Votes: 0

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? Votes: 0

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves. Votes: 0

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. Votes: 0

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar. Votes: 0

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self. Votes: 0

I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin. Votes: 0

If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles. Votes: 0

All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you. Votes: 0

With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost. Votes: 0

I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.' Votes: 0

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost. Votes: 0

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. Votes: 0

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! Votes: 0

On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready. Votes: 0

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward. Votes: 0

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you. Votes: 0

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school. Votes: 0

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up. Votes: 0

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it. Votes: 0

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more. Votes: 0

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing. Votes: 0

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy. Votes: 0

I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling. Votes: 0

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition. Votes: 0

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received. Votes: 0

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further. Votes: 0

Forget worrying about the break-up of celebrities you don't even know. I have long since given up trying to figure out why even my closest friends split up. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics? Votes: 0

aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine. Votes: 0

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up. Votes: 0

I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise. Votes: 0

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy, Votes: 0

I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs. Votes: 0

It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all. Votes: 0

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life. Votes: 0

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho. Votes: 0

I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God. Votes: 0

If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives. Votes: 0

After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity. Votes: 0

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader. Votes: 0

It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet. Votes: 0

I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things ... Votes: 0

Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again. Votes: 0

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage. Votes: 0

After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward. Votes: 0

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes. Votes: 0

My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet. Votes: 0

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am. Votes: 0

To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you. Votes: 0

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden. Votes: 0

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up. Votes: 0

Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago. Votes: 0

Same. I don't like to think I might have ended up in Plumber's gang, but given the alternative..."I raised both eyebrows. "Yeah. Drug-dealers or super-powered psychopaths? Choices, choices. Votes: 0

In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you." "I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has. Votes: 0

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus. Votes: 0

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory. Votes: 0

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living. Votes: 0

The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property. Votes: 0

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work. Votes: 0

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary. Votes: 0

He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You. Votes: 0

I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get. Votes: 0

God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me? Votes: 0

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. Votes: 0

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. Votes: 0

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things. Votes: 0

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin. Votes: 0

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up. Votes: 0

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young. Votes: 0

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began Votes: 0

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being. Votes: 0

Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up. Votes: 0

I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech. Votes: 0

The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave. Votes: 0

Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power. Votes: 0

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing. Votes: 0

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing." Votes: 0

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing. Votes: 0

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Oh that moment when Daniel thought he’d lost her to Cam’s starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he’d given up all hope. Votes: 0

A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem." Votes: 0

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time Votes: 0

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. Votes: 0

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt. Votes: 0

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us. Votes: 0

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea. Votes: 0

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins. Votes: 0

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. Votes: 0

The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer. Votes: 0

There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny. Votes: 0

What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things. Votes: 0

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota. Votes: 0

You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I'd given up on. Thank you for proving to me it's not just a fairy tale. Votes: 0