Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given… — Bertolt Brecht 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
The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it. — Vincente Minnelli Copy Share Image
I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly. — Hal Linden Copy Share Image
The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up… — Joey Santiago Copy Share Image
Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many people have gotten older and forgotten about the things they hoped for and dreamed about when they were young? Or… — Jessi Kirby 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
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
Well, there are certain pockets of improvement. The one that I think is most important is that state and local law enforcement… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I-… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The main reason for the break was a combination of travel and going back to university, which drew me into theatre more… — Roy Montgomery 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 am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it? — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly. — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up. — William Feather Copy Share Image
I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms. — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given… — Kirk Cameron 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
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
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
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