Given Up Quotes - Page 16

• 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.

  Kevin Spacey

  Years, Citizens, Looks

  "Kevin Spacey On His New Film Casino Jack". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. December 14, 2010.

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

  Umair Haque

  Dream, Giving Up, Mistake

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• You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Together, Caves

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• Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Running, Giving Up, Kids

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life.

  Leslie Ludy

  Queens, School, Two

  Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.23, Harvest House Publishers

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• ... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.

  Betty Rollin

  Wall, Mean, Hopeful

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• When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.

  Kevin Hart

  Prayer, Sunday, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• My friends ... they usually rib me about how I just sleep in and watch Oprah and that I don't really have a proper job. I've given up arguing now, so I just agree with them, even though half the time I realise I've started work before they have. Still, it's best to keep the romantic idea alive. If they call around midday and ask if they woke me, I always say yes.

  Markus Zusak

  Jobs, Sleep, Ideas

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• I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.

  Skylar Grey

  Oregon, Vision, Sound

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Hopeful

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.21

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• There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year. From there, people started to believe in me, and the organization believed in me, and once that happened, it was on me to take this thing on.

  Mike Conley, Jr.

  Believe, Commitment, Thinking

  Source: espn.go.com

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

  Dominique Moceanu

  Adoption, Born, Given

  "Champion Gymnast's Hidden Life: Dominique Moceanu on Secret Sister" by Alison Lynn, abcnews.go.com. June 8, 2012.

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

  Albert Ellis

  Years, People, Criticism

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

  Jerry Spinelli

  Home, Long, Gone

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.179, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Children, Writing, Brain

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• 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.

  Rosa Parks

  Change, Tired, Heart

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• You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.

  Sylvia Day

  Mistake, Weakness, Forget

  FaceBook post by Sylvia Day from Apr 22, 2012

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• That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

  Chanakya

  Spiritual, Men, Wife

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• 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.

  Bill Vaughan

  Anger, Animal, Men

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• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Taken, Writing, Body

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.547, Macmillan

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• I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

  Zig Ziglar

  Successful, Opportunity, Giving

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• Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Men, Our World

  Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

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• I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Struggle, Long

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.620, Hamilton Books

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• I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.

  Kami Garcia

  Hurt, Giving Up, Stupid

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

  Randy Pausch

  Life, Mean, Say Anything

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.69, Hachette UK

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