Given Up Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Teenager, Humor

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Long, House

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4341, Manonmani Publishers

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• I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Ambition, Past

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

  Mike Myers

  Should Have, Careers, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.

  Richard Gere

  Compassion, Light, Self

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

  David Richo

  Believe, Opposites, Despair

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

  Ronald Lauder

  Done, Given, Hardest

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• Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.

  Hesketh Pearson

  God, Believe, Men

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• Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried

  Terry Fox

  Giving Up, Cancer, Years

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

  Anna Held

  Trying, Use, Given

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

  Jon Stewart

  Mean, President, Mars

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• He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most far gone. He was in the absolute, end stage - they have that wing in the hospital where they have given up on you. You can smoke pot and do anything you want. They had given up on him.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Recovery, Wings, Medicine

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• 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.

  Josh Turner

  Inspirational, Basketball, School

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• I always tell myself, 'Keep on fighting.' I wasn't always a good diver—I had to work my way up to where I am now. If I had given up, I wouldn't be in the position I am today. I would have so many regrets.

  Christina Loukas

  Regret, Fighting, Today

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

  Nancy Reagan

  Mean, Justice, President

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• 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.

  W. H. Auden

  Ideas, Catholic, Religion

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• I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

  Sarah Polley

  Believe, World, Film

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• In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.

  James MacDonald

  Long, Mind, Church

  James MacDonald (2012). “Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.”, p.34, David C Cook

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• We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.

  Joschka Fischer

  Europe, Unions, Firsts

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• Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't shown up. In the meantime it is a kind of no man's land, given up by default and occupied by irregulars and their dogs.

  Jack Smith

  Dog, Past, Men

  Jack Smith (1976). “The big orange”

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• 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.

  Chris Matthews

  Israel, Roles, Honest

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• And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.

  Paul Rudnick

  Taken, People, Wish

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.

  Warren Farrell

  Retirement, Children, Home

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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

  Warren Farrell

  Retirement, Men, Given

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.

  Stanislav Grof

  Interesting, Drug, Understanding

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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