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• I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.

  Kim Harrison

  Kids, White, Nails

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• Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Country, Kings, Today

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The King of Attolia”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Forever, Would Be, Given

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• You want this?" His voice was hoarse. "Yes," she said. "Do you?" His finger traced the outline of her mouth. "For this I would have been damned forever. For this I would have given up everything." She felt the burn behind her eyes, the pressure of tears, and blinked wet eyelashes. "Will ..." "Dw i'n dy garu di am byth," he said. "I love you. Always." And he moved to cover her body with his own.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Eye, Voice

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• He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.

  Maya Banks

  Heart, Inspired, Said

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• A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.

  Neil Gaiman

  Trying, Needs, Alive

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• A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

  H. G. Wells

  Religious, Men, People

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.10332, Delphi Classics

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• Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment of the world. Girls who act from their false selves are often cynical about making the world a better place. They have given up hope. Only when they reconnect with the parts of themselves that are alive and true will they again have the energy to take on the culture and fight to save the planet.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Spiritual, Fighting

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• So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this

  Adele

  Break Up, Break, Given

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• If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.

  Patrick Henry

  Arms, Given, Lost

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• Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

  Katie Gill

  Sad, Feeling Down, Tears

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• Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Soul, Intellectual

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

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• Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

  Paul Valery

  Failure, Succeed, Transformation

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• I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

  Douglas Coupland

  Idaho, Finding Happiness, Cafes

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

  Wendell Phillips

  Given, Statesmen, Presidency

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.309

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• Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

  Laozi

  Strength, Truth, Heart

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• One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Fighting, Winning

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• A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.

  Hortense Odlum

  Fashion, Attitude, Clothes

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• Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where Islam is concerned. There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing. This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that "bravely" trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.

  Ross Douthat

  Self, Political, Islam

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• I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

  Stephanie Mills

  Trying, Never Quit, Quitting

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• Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take their place. A time of change presents a confused picture. That there is change is proof that dance is organically vital--and much more so than it has ever before been in this country.

  Margaret H'Doubler

  Dance, Country, Confused

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• To think that the woman is dominated by man or man is dominated by woman comes from a kind of a complex and this complex must be given up. You are complimentary to each other. You decorate each other. Never talk ill of your husbands and never talk ill of your wives. This is the key of having an exclusive married life.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Husband

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• I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Entertainment, Theater, Given

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

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• I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

  Mel Smith

  Years, Theatre, Directors

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• Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Self, Care, Consciousness

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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