Given Up Quotes - Page 9

• Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

  Susan Glaspell

  Past, Half, Welcome

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”

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• I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Judging, Advice

  Pablo Picasso (1972*). “Picasso: 90 Drawings and Works in Colour”

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• I hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that, when a woman decides to hold off on gunning for a promotion because she wants to have a baby, other women whisper that 'she's throwing away her potential.' That is when we're not supporting our own. Who are we to put such a limited definition on success?

  Zosia Mamet

  Running, Country, Baby

  "Zosia Mamet on Why She Won't Lean In, Thanks". www.glamour.com. May 15, 2014.

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• I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

  Elton John

  Alcohol, Drug, Trying

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• The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.

  Bob Sorge

  Giving Up, Enemy, Want

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• All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.

  Karl Barth

  Men, Thinking, Judging

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation”, p.220, A&C Black

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• The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Men, People

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• School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

  Albert Shanker

  Hope, Children, School

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• All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

  Nicole Richie

  Girlfriend, Boys, Rehab

  "The Truth About Diamonds". Book by Nicole Richie, 2005.

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• Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.

  Eva LaRue

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation.

  Wilbur Moorehead Smith

  Christian, Jesus, Selfish

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• The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cows, Buffalo, Given

  Mahatma Gandhi (1954). “How to Serve the Cow”

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• Well, there are certain pockets of improvement. The one that I think is most important is that state and local law enforcement levels have started to do a lot more educative efforts within their organizations to understand the kind of threat we're facing. They've given up on the federal level.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Law, Organization

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

  Jello Biafra

  Teacher, Class, People

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least in allowing that kind of scrutiny into our lives. We've given up a little bit of that, and this is the existential nightmare of all of that. What happens when you suddenly find out that people have been watching you, with a purpose?

  Remi Aubuchon

  Taken, Ideas, People

  "Executive Producer Remi Aubuchon Exclusive Interview PERSONS UNKNOWN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the only thing that was standing in its way was me doing it - I just had to write it... And then if it didn't happen, it didn't happen. But I didn't want it to be for lack of effort on my part, so I had hunch that it would be a good story and that we would work well together. And it certainly worked out that way.

  Paul Reiser

  Writing, Years, Ideas

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• 9% would give up sex for the remote control. 91% has already given up sex for the remote control!

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Giving Up, Remote Control

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• Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.

  Judith Orloff

  Mean, Healthy, Down And

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• Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  World, Tests, Abandoned

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Nobody is lost until somebody has given up.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Lost, Given

  "At Home with the Hinckleys". Interview with Marvin K. Gardner and Don L. Searle, www.lds.org. October 2003.

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• The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

  Scott Bakula

  Home, Reality, Shoes

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• I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security, the authority that we've given Democratic and Republican presidents, all have contributed to a fraying of the fabric of our democratic republic.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Thinking, Names, President

  Source: collider.com

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• Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

  William Feather

  Achievement, Matter, Given

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• The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!

  Adam Clarke

  Teacher, Pride, Men

  Adam Clarke (1837). “The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, the Text Carefully Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings”, p.555

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