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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. -- Oscar Levant
Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self. -- C. S. Lewis
We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home. -- Jerry Spinelli
To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit. -- Maya Angelou
When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you. -- Randy Pausch
Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. -- Ovid
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly. -- Terry Gilliam
I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now. -- Ernie Els
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
Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them. -- Frank Ocean
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 ache in my heart. -- Rosa Parks
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 read. Children you only need to tell things to once. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus. -- Billy Graham
If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I have no regrets.I have spent my life,so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. -- Lee Kuan Yew
A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is. -Cross Marian -- Katsura Hoshino
Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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 power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls. -- C. S. Lewis
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes. -- Swami Vivekananda
Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up. -- Swami Vivekananda
I have never given up on men easily. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Nobody is lost until somebody has given up. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I have given up considering happiness as relevant. -- Edward Gorey
I love standup and I haven't given it up. -- Ray Romano
I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has. -- Richelle Mead
I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media. -- Rush Limbaugh
Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily. -- Max Baucus
The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up. -- Grant Cardone
If you want to be given everything, give everything up. -- Laozi
The hardest thing I have done is given up power. -- Ronald Lauder
I feel much better, now that I've given up hope. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope. -- Albert Shanker
The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble. -- Stephen King
Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up. -- Sathya Sai Baba
If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up. -- Viggo Mortensen
I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. -- Conor Oberst
When people have given up on happiness they call themselves "realists. -- Marty Rubin
Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up. -- Heidi Klum
I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me. -- Miranda Lambert
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival. -- Penelope Spheeris
President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes. -- Bob Hope
Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up. -- Katie Gill
I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail. -- John Bolton
In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago. -- Luke Evans
We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now! -- Rumi
All my life I've believed in myself. And I have never given up. -- Curtis Pride
Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead. -- Stephen Sondheim
Success is the ability to keep trying when others have already given up! -- Alex Munoz
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. -- Joseph Joubert
President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth. -- Jon Stewart
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director. -- Mel Smith
Hell is given up so reluctantly by those who don't expect to go there -- Harry Leon Wilson
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. -- Oscar Levant
Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given. -- Guy Browning
For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything. -- Cassandra Clare
God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe. -- Billy Mills
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me. -- David Hockney
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up. -- Tacitus
Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up. -- Thomas Brooks
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. -- Ian Hislop
Every single child should have the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential. -- Hillary Clinton
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle. -- Shulamith Firestone
Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead. -- Will Rogers
If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential. -- Macklemore
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice. -- Zig Ziglar
I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing. -- Anna Held
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. -- Mitch Leigh
I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing. -- Anna Held
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up -- Elbert Hubbard
9% would give up sex for the remote control. 91% has already given up sex for the remote control! -- Jay Leno
Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms. -- Steve Harvey
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it. -- Vincente Minnelli
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years. -- Albert Ellis
I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up. -- Miguel Syjuco
The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles. -- Kurt Sutter
Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors. -- Nancy Pfotenhauer
I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them. -- April Winchell
I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security. -- Robert Stack
Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. -- Mark Thornton
When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret. -- Cheri Oteri
Everyone is given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you. -- Steven Redhead
You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it? -- Richard Bach
A smile is a God given sun that lights up our lives in the midst of darkness -- Evy Michaels
We are given the potential to excel, whether we do or not is entirely up to us. -- Steven Redhead
On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that's what music's for. -- Madonna Ciccone
The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again. -- Aisha Tyler
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up. -- William Feather
Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion. -- Nancy Reagan
If you have not given up as yet, failure is not a relevant social status in your life. -- Wayne Chirisa
Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept. -- Rich Mullins
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. -- Stephen Fry
I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it. -- Dominique Moceanu
Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. -- Henry Miller
What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know. -- Lauren DeStefano
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus. -- Christian McKay
A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction -- John Calvin
When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. -- Jeff Koons
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. -- Jess Row
If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to. -- Elizabeth Edwards
People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus. -- Christian McKay
What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need. -- George Alexiou
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. -- Kate Morton
All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic. -- Nicole Richie
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. -- John Malkovich
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Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome. -- Susan Glaspell
The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. -- Alan Huffman
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. -- Sidney Poitier
At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. -- Lee Kuan Yew
I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money. -- Swami Vivekananda
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly. -- Hal Linden
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. -- Charles Simmons
At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse. -- Dov Davidoff
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. -- Muriel Barbery

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