Giving Up Quotes - Page 33

• At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South and North shall come;When the sinner is dismayed,And the just man is afraid,Then Heaven be thy aid,Poor Tom.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Men, Islands, Hands

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1846). “The Poems of John G.C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life”, p.70

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• Whatever things a man gives up,
  By those he cannot suffer pain.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.

  Paul Bourget

  Artist, Feelings, Looks

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• I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

  Alfred Nobel

  Men, Hands, Dreamer

  "Nobel, Dynamite and Peace". Book by Ragnar Sohlman, p. 249, 1929.

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• The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

  Nicholas Lore

  Careers, Perfect, Design

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• A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.

  Anthony de Mello

  Country, Quests, Belief

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.119, Image

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• The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Becoming

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

  Warren Farrell

  Giving, Pay

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

  Pat Buchanan

  Pay The Price, Wish, Empires

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• Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

  Larry Niven

  Giving, Sometimes, No Point

  "The Ringworld Engineers". Book by Larry Niven, 1980.

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• Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.

  Stewart Brand

  Believe, Fighting, Discipline

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.223, Penguin

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• To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Love, Suicide, Disease

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Order, Security

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• I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Stubborn, Junk

  Interview with Dennis Widmyer, chuckpalahniuk.net. July 30, 2007.

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• It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Weapons, Busy

  "Candidates tackle Iraq". The debate at Washington University, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea.

  Sarada Devi

  Philosophy, Trying, Sage

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (pp. 188-189), 2004.

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• If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Love, Couple, Thinking

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.312, Penguin

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• Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

  Karl Jaspers

  Ideas, Community, Example

  Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.61, JHU Press

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• America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

  Dennis Kucinich

  America, Challenges, Liberty

  Formal Announcement Speech, Cleveland, Ohio, www.4president.org. October 13, 2003.

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• Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Stubborn, Loser, Winner

  "Interview with Ted Kaczynski". "Green Anarchist" Magazine,

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• We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!

  Eva LaRue

  Cancer, Recovery, Reality

  Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011.

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• I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children... and they're all going to do this... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it.

  Stevie Nicks

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  "Rumours Exposed: The Unauthorized Biography of Fleetwood Mac". Book by Leah Furman, 2003.

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• My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. That you be willing to pay Black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country. That you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills Black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people, and I haven't met any like that.

  Sister Souljah

  Mother, Country, Father

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

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• Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, Law, Economic Value

  "Ceres". Book by L. Neil Smith, 2009.

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• One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society can comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism. If a group of people - even a very large group - wanted to purchase land and own it in common, they would be free to do so. The libertarian legal order would require only that no one be coerced into joining or giving up his property.

  David Boaz

  Order, Land, Differences

  "The Coming Libertarian Age". Cato Policy Report, January/February 1997.

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