Given Up Quotes
240 quotes by 212 authors
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Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their…
— Jim Butcher
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I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.
— Richelle Mead
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Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you." "I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft.…
— Richelle Mead
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And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that…
— Amy Tan
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...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up…
— Jose Saramago
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Oh that moment when Daniel thought he’d lost her to Cam’s starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that…
— Lauren Kate
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There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up…
— Suzanne Collins
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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
— Jerry Spinelli
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I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the…
— Rosa Parks
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on…
— Charlaine Harris
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The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to…
— George Orwell
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There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes…
— Brandon Mull
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What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.
— Lauren DeStefano
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She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he…
— Nora Roberts
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I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a…
— Kami Garcia
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