Giving Up Quotes - Page 24

• I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

  Kate Smith

  Family, Goes On, Matter

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• Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

  Sean Hannity

  Danger, Airmen, Should

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• That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

  Kurt Busch

  Best Effort, Trying, Matter

  "2nd, 3rd Finishers Pocono II Press Conference". Press Conference, www.motorsport.com. August 8, 2011.

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• For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

  Rob Bell

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  "Hello, Rob Bell - The Interview". Interview with Skye Jethani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Art, Couple, Doctors

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• You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

  Christopher Cross

  Art, Believe, Fighting

  "Interview With Christopher Cross Upon Release Of New Album 'Doctor Faith'". CBS-FM Interview, wcbsfm.cbslocal.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back'!

  Dale Archer

  Jobs, Kids, Blood

  "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

  Gloria Allred

  Struggle, Painful Death, Dying

  "Gloria Allred's Fighting Spirit" by Leslie Bennetts, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 1, 2010.

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• If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Goal, Trying

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.

  Dave Davies

  Spiritual, Cutting, Thinking

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• By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

  Chuck Eddy

  Rap, Late, 80s

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• After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Real, Rich Life, Acting

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• If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

  Charles Frazier

  Reading, Listening, Sticks

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• France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

  Laurent Fabius

  Strong, Views, Demand

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• You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mother, Children, Father

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• When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

  Brian Austin Green

  Real, Thinking, One Day

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• One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

  Jeff Goodell

  Believe, America, People

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• Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Death, Guy, Dying

  Song: Racing in the Street, Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, 1978

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• I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive.

  Friedrich Wohler

  Science, May, Too Much

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• A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.

  Samuel Crompton

  Mean, Eye, Insecure

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• Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Persistence, Men, Design

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• Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

  Louis Zamperini

  Sports, Perseverance, Persistence

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• The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.

  Rachel Billington

  Family, Daughter, Mother

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• She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm.

  Michelle Herman

  Sex, Decision, Romance

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• When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

  Tom Glazer

  Writing, Together, Pleasure

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