I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it. — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up!… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus. — Christian McKay Copy Share Image