I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything… — Jerry Ferrara Copy Share Image
Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit.… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan is going to go into negotiations with [Vladimir] Putin from a position of strength. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of… — Emanuel Ungaro Copy Share Image
That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not… — Louise Fletcher Copy Share Image
I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept… — Elle Varner Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
We got the clearest picture of Donald Trump's weaknesses and liabilities in a general election. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finally gave… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this… — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked… — David Sharp Copy Share Image
What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I just want to inspire all those people who gave up and said 'I quit,' Never give up! — Gabby Douglas Copy Share Image
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit. — Bob Gibson Copy Share Image
If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level. — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
Always remember that if you give up in life, life didn't give up on you, you gave up on life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave… — Susan Strasberg Copy Share Image