Gave Up Quotes

218 quotes by 202 authors

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in… — Russell Baker
I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties. — Sara Blakely
I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover. — Sandra Bullock
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. — Johnny Carson
I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to… — Eric Clapton
I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it. — Bob Wickman
Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching. — Tris Speaker
Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a… — Janet Morris
The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was… — Art Buchwald
We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot. No… — Shaquille O'Neal
I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up. — Harry S. Truman
American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated… — Dave Barry
I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The… — Graham Coxon
In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. — George Best
Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there… — Maurice Grimaud
I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win but… — Juli Inkster
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I… — Linus Pauling
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave… — Harrison Ford
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then,… — John Lennon
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went… — Willie Nelson

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