Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
One of my roles is rebounding the ball and not giving up offensive boards, and I feel like I can be one… — Ivica Zubac Copy Share Image
The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving… — Bilal Philips Copy Share Image
You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Fear cannot exist in the presence of faith. Fear only exists because you feel that you are not in control. Give up… — John Harricharan Copy Share Image
Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that… — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I would give up everything for you, Giulia" I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We need to be clear that there is no such thing as giving up one's privilege to be 'outside' the system. ONE… — Harry Brod Copy Share Image
My advice to women is the same advice I would give to any young man trying to make it in the business… — Ondi Timoner Copy Share Image
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When I look back at how we began; the laughter and love that we shared, I smile at all the ways we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as… — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
Here's a piece of advice: let go when you're hurting too much, give up when love isn't enough and move on when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a… — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to give up on someone in order to respect yourself rather than keep accepting things and words you don't… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
It's a long journey and along the journey you'll get tired. But if, when you're very, very tired and you're about to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped… — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
Giving up on some things doesn't always mean you are weak, sometimes it just means that you are strong enough to let… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
