Given Up Quotes - Page 13

• 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.

  Edith Stein

  Girl, Years, Jewish Religion

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• Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water.'

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Medicine, Eight, Blood

  Journal of Scientology, Issue 15-G, 1953.

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• I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Trouble, Given

  Stephen King (2017). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Rebecca West

  Country, Soul, Littles

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Two, Tanks

  "Holidays in Hell". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1989.

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• 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. How horrible to contemplate a church full of persons who have been pardoned but who still love sin and hate the ways of righteousness. And how much more horrible to think of heaven as filled with sinners who had not repented nor changed their way of living.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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

  Tacitus

  Men, Lasts, Fame

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• I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

  Vera Wang

  Dream, Fashion, Moving

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• I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Ideas, Forever

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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• I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

  Edward Gorey

  Given, Relevant, Considering

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they’ve given up on you, they prove that they never will. 4. They find a way to speak up after staying silent for so long. 3. They defend you when you least expect it. 2. By showing you how life can get better now. 1. By helping you find a place to belong.

  Susane Colasanti

  Thinking, Long, People

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.122, Penguin

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• My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch..... Laura Acosta

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Eye, Mirrors, Bed

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Fatigue Artist”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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

  Muriel Barbery

  Trying, Looks, Assumption

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• Hey, Tink," Reed called to his wife. He'd given up on the poker game and was cradling the little pink handle that was Mariah Savage in his arms. "Look how cute she is. I think I want one. S'pose we can stop by Walmart and pick up one just like her.?" Chrystal glanced up from her cards and gave her husband a look. "Three o'clock feedings. Smelly diapers. Responsability." "Oh. Right. I'd have to grow up.

  Cindy Gerard

  Cute, Husband, Growing Up

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• She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume.com page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now.

  Sarah Dessen

  Goodbye, Farewell, Emotional

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.210, Penguin

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• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Kings, Princess

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

  Lauren DeStefano

  Done, Given, Knows

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.

  Brandon Mull

  Hero, Sacrifice, People

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.

  Richelle Mead

  Vampire Academy, Dimitri, Given

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.225, Penguin

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• Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their best, they’re acting in accordance with their soul. The ones who have gone bad don’t have bad souls. They’ve just given up on keeping in touch with them.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Thinking, Rocks

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• Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Beautiful, Pain, Home

  Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis (1981). “Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales”, Puffin

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• There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in the early days, who had simply lain down and given up, unable to cope with the terrible things that were happening in the world. These boys were survivors. The will to live was stronger than any other feelings.

  Charlie Higson

  Kids, Boys, Feelings

  Charlie Higson (2009). “The Enemy”, p.26, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Insecure, Boys, Past

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• 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.

  A. P. Herbert

  Men, Smoking, Rude

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• The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

  John Jay Chapman

  Heartbroken, Home, Ambition

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