Given Up Quotes - Page 6

• Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

  Henry Miller

  Chaos, Ghost, Midst

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Fire, Would Be

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

  Italo Svevo

  Strong, Fear, Believe

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• She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

  Edith Wharton

  Communication, Archer, Eye

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing that I had given up my life to little or nothing, only then to find that it was gone. p 3

  Sheri L. Dew

  Pain, Gone, Done

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• There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved for the dullard. It is the very opposite of creation, which is play… The part of me which was given up to work, which enabled my wife and child to live in the manner which they unthinkingly demanded, this part of me which kept the wheel turning - a completely fatuous, ego-centric notion! - was the least part of me. I gave nothing to the world in fulfilling the function of breadwinner; the world exacted its tribute of me, that was all.

  Henry Miller

  Children, Opposites, Play

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• The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

  Banksy

  Stupid, Drinking, Sneakers

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• After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

  John Woolman

  Heart, Sadness, Journey

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.87, Lulu.com

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• We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

  Rebecca West

  Real, War, Glasses

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

  Anne Fadiman

  Children, Parenting, Thinking

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Doors, Hopeful, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.27, Penguin

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• Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.

  Dalai Lama

  Creativity, Long Ago, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.

  Scott Thompson

  Beautiful, Nice, Orange

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• He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path. The rest who have given up never knew your address at all. There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well. But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do?

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Spiritual, Tired, Two

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• Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Play, Used, Given

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• Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

  Max Baucus

  Should, Given

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• I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Mother, Two, Months

  "Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October, 2000.

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• Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don’t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they’ve given up and try to lure someone else.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Girl, Running, Fighting

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• In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

  Edward Hirsch

  Teacher, School, Grandfather

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you for proving to me it’s not just a fairy tale.

  Simone Elkeles

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Impossible

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Balance, Groups

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I have never given up on men easily.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Men, Given

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• As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Doe, May

  Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)

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• What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking, Roots, Vampire

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.654, Penguin

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• The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

  George Orwell

  Paris, People, Mad

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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