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  • I gave up love and happiness a long time ago. -- Richard Ramirez
  • When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -- Henny Youngman
  • I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint. -- Emo Philips
  • The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes. -- Rumi
  • In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. -- George Best
  • Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? -- Douglas Adams
  • Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion. -- Kai Greene
  • When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things. -- Maurice Sendak
  • I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. -- Johnny Carson
  • If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. -- Abraham Maslow
  • She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. -- Christina Rossetti
  • 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 of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Sarah Vowell
  • Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy. -- Laura Linney
  • I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you. -- Harrison Ford
  • The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse. -- Frank Abagnale
  • 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 beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of. -- Moby
  • All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live. -- T. D. Jakes
  • I gave up before birth. -- Samuel Beckett
  • I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching -- Tommy Shaw
  • I gave up shame a long time ago. -- John Lithgow
  • I gave up my childhood for a career. -- Brenda Lee
  • A saint is a sinner who never gave up. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality. -- Neil Peart
  • I gave up on my looks a long time ago. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • He never gave up. And he does that for us -- Steven Spielberg
  • I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
  • We gave up everything just to sit at your table. -- John Lennon
  • But I never gave up personal things to work, never. -- Catherine Deneuve
  • My opponents are the people who gave up our borders. -- Nigel Farage
  • I gave up on my looks a long time ago, -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • Caro: "Bite me."Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten. -- Kristin Hannah
  • When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else. -- Frank Zappa
  • I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching. -- Tris Speaker
  • He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up. -- Michael Jordan
  • He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated. -- Mary Karr
  • I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies. -- Leslie Fiedler
  • I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age. -- Charles Darwin
  • I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover. -- Sandra Bullock
  • I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair -- Dolly Parton
  • We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up. -- Stephen Fry
  • I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success. -- Billy Sheehan
  • Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try. -- Dennis DeYoung
  • I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up... -- Kurt Warner
  • I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose. -- Francine Rivers
  • I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it. -- Bob Wickman
  • I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up. -- Harry S. Truman
  • I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago. -- Ronald Biggs
  • I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost. -- Omar Sharif
  • I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching. -- Vera Rubin
  • I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago. -- Greg Boyle
  • You'll get them tomorrow. You gave it a good shot. Keep your chin up. -- Ted Alexandro
  • I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up. -- Shakira
  • I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals. -- Johnny Carson
  • What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily. -- Harrison Ford
  • Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience. -- Noah Wyle
  • I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ. -- John Calvin
  • My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me. -- David Cassidy
  • I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show. -- Branford Marsalis
  • I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God. -- Lenny Bruce
  • And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears. -- William Shakespeare
  • What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! -- St. Catherine of Siena
  • When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. -- Howard Nemerov
  • All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ. -- Mickey Rooney
  • I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life. -- Humphrey Bogart
  • I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. -- Damien Hirst
  • My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching. -- Jamelia
  • Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours. -- Zig Ziglar
  • I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships. -- Geoffrey Beene
  • Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life. -- Tennessee Williams
  • I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. -- Henny Youngman
  • I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed. -- Roz Chast
  • My mum gave up so much to have me, and now I want to repay her. -- Lauren Jackson
  • My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream. -- David Hasselhoff
  • If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two. -- James Carville
  • I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties. -- Sara Blakely
  • If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk. -- Louise Hay
  • I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me! -- Charles M. Schulz
  • If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level. -- Lyoto Machida
  • I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit. -- Bob Gibson
  • Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely. -- Johnny Weissmuller
  • I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic. -- David Crosby
  • There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets. -- Eleanor Mondale
  • I used to be a virgin, but I gave it up because there was no money in it. -- Marsha Warfield
  • I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up. -- Bill Joy
  • I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it. -- David Byrne
  • I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. -- Willie Nelson
  • I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying. -- Sarah Monette
  • I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity. -- Anne Murray
  • I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up. -- Rebecca Black
  • I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint. -- Clare Boothe Luce
  • She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. -- Michael Ondaatje
  • We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted? -- Rohan Perera
  • Wake up every morning thankful for everything that God gave you, and make your passion your purpose in life. -- Katie Cleary
  • We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance. -- John Cale
  • It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her. -- Frances Hardinge
  • I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that. -- Si Robertson
  • I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. -- William Hague
  • I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back. -- Rick Warren
  • I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22. -- Samm Levine
  • That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up. -- Mike Tyson
  • There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart. -- Deidre Hall
  • I just want to inspire all those people who gave up and said 'I quit,' Never give up! -- Gabby Douglas
  • When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. -- Robert Frost
  • God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. -- Voltaire
  • I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave me nightmares. -- Danielle Panabaker
  • Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength. -- Amanda Burton
  • When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage. -- Emo Philips
  • For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear. -- Frances Moore Lappé
  • If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. -- James Lovelock
  • Those who gave the orders, oversaw the killings, and ordered the subsequent cover-up have yet to be arrested and prosecuted. -- Victoria Nuland
  • God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people. -- Francis Collins
  • Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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