Best Gave Up Quotations
218 Gave Up quotes by 200 unique authors
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Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then…
— Albert Speer
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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people…
— Thomas A. Edison
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So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my…
— Moby
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We gave up everything just to sit at your table.
— John Lennon
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I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up...
— Kurt Warner
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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing,…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do it. Still think…
— Jimmy Fallon
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But I never gave up personal things to work, never.
— Catherine Deneuve
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I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.
— Lenny Bruce
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And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who…
— J D Hayworth
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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed…
— Sarah Vowell
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Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions... Sometimes people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties during a crisis, hoping…
— Ron Paul
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they…
— Emile Zola
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[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the…
— David Frum
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found…
— E L Doctorow
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My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really…
— David Nail
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I gave up my childhood for a career.
— Brenda Lee
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I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
— Leslie Fiedler
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I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
— Anne Rice
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably…
— Sam Shepard
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It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean,…
— Jacqueline Carey
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a…
— Manu Bennett
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