I Quotes
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“I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.”
“I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!”
“I gave up on America. I read the Times just to find out what they're thinking. I read blogs. I get most of my best information from people who are there, people who write independently. And there's actually very few of them.”
“I gave up on any hope of redemption long ago. Hell, at this point I’m simply waiting to die. So, leave before you waste any more of your time. I can’t and frankly don’t deserve to help you…”
Source: The Companions
“I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.”
“I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.”
“I gave up on honoring Christopher Columbus
long before the country did
and have often espoused the questioning
of the path trod by those we studied
as the great explorers.
What havoc they wreaked on the lands they explored.
And who really did the exploring?
The myth of the lone white man braving the new land is
just that, a myth--
the local guides were the ones who knew the territory
and did the work,
including the work of keeping them all alive.
And yet, indigenous populations explored as well,
and some wreaked their own havoc on other populations
at the same time that they grew worlds.
History is incredibly complicated.”
“I gave up on my looks a long time ago.”
“I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.”
“I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.”
“I gave up practically the whole world for you... The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!”
“I gave up shame a long time ago.”
“I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.”
“I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy.”
“I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel.”
“I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know.”
Source: Silence
“I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.”
“I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.”
Source: The Woman of Rome
“I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.”
“I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!”
“I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.”
“I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.”
“I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.”
“I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“I gave you a few laughs and showed you a good time, but there was no future with me. So although it was fun while it lasted, you made up your mind to choose the stability and security a rich man can offer.”
She shook her head. “No.”
“No?”
“If you look in your heart, you know that’s not true.”
“So, what is it then, he went into a jealous rage and he threatened
you?”
“Yes.”
“With your life?”
“No.”
“Well then...”
“With yours.”
Source: Journey Towards a Falling Sun
“I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.”
“I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.
But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.”
Source: When You Were Pixels
“I gave you all of me, but now I finally give myself what you couldn’t.”
“I gave you everything," Hal shouted.
"No, you took everything!" she yelled back. "You took my name away!"
Hal looked as bewildered as if she'd slapped him. Then his jolly, reasonable look was back, the mask once again in place.
"Daisy," he said, his voice calm.
"That's not my name!" she shrieked.
He reached out to put his hands on her shoulders, as he'd done so many times before, to hold her still, to instruct her, and in her head she ducked and saw Hal stumbling forward, grabbing for the wobbly post, the one that had never been repaired. She saw his feet skid on the slick surface of the deck, saw his arms pinwheeling, hands groping, reaching for her, for help that wouldn't come. She saw him fall, thudding down one, two, three, four, five, six flights of stairs, to lie, broken and motionless, on the sand, limbs twisted, eyes open to the rain. She saw herself look down at him, seeing nothing but a male body around a man-shaped void. Not a man at all, but a creature with cold, flat eyes, a monster with instincts for self-preservation and a species of low cunning, but not a man, not a person who had loved her, or anyone.”
Source: That Summer
“I gave you heaven, and you put me through hell, so heaven and hell must be real.”
“I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“I gave you life. You’re wasting it.”
“I gave you more than anyone gave you... and I had less to give. I'll never forget the pain I felt when you betrayed me anyway. You lost that day... even though I was the one heartbroken... you lost. Life will reveal to you what you had in me... what you threw away. And you'll search for me in everyone you meet and I won't be found.”
“I gave you my heart, but you took everything else.”
Source: Rosie: An Old Castle Novel
“I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.”
Source: Return to Paradise
“I gave you my love, I gave you my heart, I gave you everything you ever wanted and all you did was take it for granted...leaving me broken hearted.”
“I gave you my soul because I figured you needed it more.”
“I gave you my strength when you had none, yet you forgot me when you found yours.”
“I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out
Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out”
“I gave you rage,” he said. “You turned it into discipline. Do not forget your fury.”
Source: The Heir of Ash and Thunder
“I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.”
“I gave you something you can never give back. Don't you mind?”
“I gave you sympathy. *I* want sympathy!" "Are you kidding me? You have the sexiest man on the planet wanting you. You're getting laid regularly. No sympathy for you!”
Source: Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels
“I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd exactly done that.”
Source: The Best Of Me
“I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.”
“I gave you the best of me.”
“I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain. -Saruman”
“I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories