Given Up Quotes

240 quotes by 212 authors

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life… — Rebecca Harding Davis
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton
I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in… — Emily VanCamp
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to… — Denis Diderot
If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to. — Elizabeth Edwards
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French,… — Henry Walter Bates
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I… — Wolfgang Hildesheimer
The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I… — Joey Santiago
If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government… — John W. Gardner
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. — J D Salinger
What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which… — Martin Buber
What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting,… — Martin Buber
All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and… — Karl Barth
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope. — Albert Shanker
Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. — Will Rogers
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. — St. Jerome
If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows. — Arno C. Gaebelein
If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization… — Itay Talgam
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it,… — Christian Nestell Bovee
It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the… — C.S. Lewis

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