Given Up Quotes

240 quotes by 212 authors

The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes… — Richard Reti
It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new… — Ramana Maharshi
I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los… — Mackenzie Astin
I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me. — Miranda Lambert
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director. — Mel Smith
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop
One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on… — Per Petterson
I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since… — Josh Turner
Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self. — C.S. Lewis
The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are."… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where… — Ross Douthat
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. — Charles Simmons
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they… — Diana Wynne Jones
Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up. — Katie Gill
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions… — Corliss Lamont
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. ... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as… — Charlie Chaplin
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artistâ€¦..I had lost all interest in the art shown… — Jean Dubuffet
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit… — Octavia Butler

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