Given Up Quotes - Page 14

• President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, President, Painting

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Perfect

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

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Careers, Tennis, Given

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

  Ronald Knox

  Stupid, Believe, Civilization

  Let Dons Delight ch. 8 (1939)

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• Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

  Janet Morris

  Long Ago, Soul, Embodiment

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• Some people are very identified, say with their country or maybe with their worshipping style , whatever it is. All these misidentifications have to be given up. It is very difficult for people because they are so conditioned and as long as you have conditioning you cannot rise above your mind, which is a myth, you cannot.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Country

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• Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.

  Liane Moriarty

  Giving Up, Wine, Jam

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• And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book.

  Renata Adler

  Brother, Book, Years

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• I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I'd ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you?" He ran his hands through his hair, making it stick up in loops and curls that Clary ached to smooth down. "You came for me," he said. "You saved me when almost everyone else had given up, and even the people who hadn't given up didn't know what to do. You think I don't know what you went through?

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Thinking, Hair

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• 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

  Cassandra Clare

  Long, Trying, Different

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1031, Simon and Schuster

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• I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Thinking, Worst Enemy

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• This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Inspirational, Teenage, Marijuana

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• No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Disappointment, Long, Expectations

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1956). “The God of All Comfort”, p.206, CCEL

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

  John Calvin

  Soul, Devil, Destruction

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.105, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Marty Meehan

  Leadership, Moral High Ground, President

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• 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.

  Mark Tooley

  Cities, America, People

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• 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.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  New Year, Years, People

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2014

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• 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.

  Socrates

  Grieving, Self, Acting

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• Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Taken, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.59, Advaita Ashrama

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• ...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for the government...They were depriving the free world of its most valuable weapon in condemning and exposing the worst human scourge since Nazism: the targeting and murder of civilians to achieve political and religious ends.

  Naomi Ragen

  Religious, Government, Self

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• How many people have gotten older and forgotten about the things they hoped for and dreamed about when they were young? Or given up without ever taking a chance, or settled in life because it's easier, or they're scared, or whatever other excuses? How many people need a reminder of who they once were?

  Jessi Kirby

  People, Needs, Chance

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• I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

  George Sand

  Mother, Grief, Thinking

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• I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

  Clara Schumann

  Ideas, Creative, Desire

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• If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.

  Esther Perel

  Order, One Day, Lost

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• As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Home, Years

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