Given Up Quotes

240 quotes by 212 authors

Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by… — Gore Vidal
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years. — Albert Ellis
I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer… — Tom Hodgkinson
There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every… — Ed Koch
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. — Jeff Koons
I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media. — Rush Limbaugh
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. — Sidney Poitier
Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead. — Stephen Sondheim
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival. — Penelope Spheeris
I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's… — Scott Thompson
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to… — Bill Vaughan
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth… — Rebecca West
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently… — John Woolman
I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory,… — Zig Ziglar
The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking… — Banksy
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to… — Ayn Rand
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved… — Henry Miller
Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy… — Cormac McCarthy
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. — Jane Addams
Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. — Henry Miller

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