Gave Up Quotes - Page 6

• ...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Littles, Discouraged

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.28, Random House

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• He never gave up. And he does that for us

  Steven Spielberg

  Doe, War Horse

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• I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. “Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Sacrifice, Past, Mouths

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.

  Mary Karr

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• When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Zest, Careers, Creative

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• No, hear me out. The long answer to that question is that everything about me has changed since meeting you. What I wanted five months ago is different from what I want today. Did I want a human body? Yes, very much. Is it my top priority now? No." He looked at me with serious eyes."I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know. ~Patch

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Angel, Thinking

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Angel, Thinking, Needs

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Long Ago, People, Trying

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• This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.

  J. D. Salinger

  Fall, Men, Thinking

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• How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Stubborn, Littles

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• My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Home, School

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• That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Respect, People

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• No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.

  Suzanne Collins

  Way, Convince

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

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• We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

  Graham Nash

  Anniversary, Song, Emotional

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• When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

  Howard Nemerov

  Stories, Literature, Modern

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• Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

  Stevie Nicks

  Fighting, Thinking, Who I Am

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• What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

  Shimon Peres

  Birthday, Country, Ambition

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• It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.

  Priscilla Presley

  Song, Tired, Dark

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• Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

  Jonathan Sacks

  People, Holocaust, One Day

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• I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

  Russell Baker

  Lonely, Loneliness, Years

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• At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his pounding fists , one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth , as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her . She stood there until he tired , until he gave up , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded , until all was quiet , save for the gunfire cracking in the hills and her own heart thudding in her belly , her eyes , her bones .

  Khaled Hosseini

  Goodbye, Tired, Heart

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• I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.

  Sarah Monette

  Running, Praying, Enough

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• ...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend Pelham at the dinner table for fourteen minutes, much less at the banquet table of Heaven eternally. Eternity is a mighty long time to be stuck with people who judge every word you say and think and condemn most of what you do. It struck me as pretty miserable company. And if Reverend Pelham was the kind of company God preferred to keep, well, I just hoped they'd be happy together.

  Katherine Paterson

  Christian, Thinking, Judging

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• Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Men, Scotland

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

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