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“I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.”

“Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.”

Sometimes Past Given Half Welcome Given Up Uninvited

Source: The morning is near us: a novel

“What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.”

Ifs Thinking Years Might Given White Deals Effort Principles Wise Possibility Hair Fifty Given Up Being Wise Coalitions White Hair

Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!”

Men Two Spirit Names Given Heaven Rich Ashes Martyr Given Up Gave Up Widows Sparkle

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.”

People Ifs Government Asks Given Given Up

Author:Jennifer Pahlka

“Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.”

Years Looks Stills Might Lasts Given Citizens England Privacy Given Up American Citizens Right To Privacy

Author:Kevin Spacey

“My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Would Be Given Half Wonder Careers Selfish Commit Just Being Given Up Marriage And Family Half Measures

Author:Alec Baldwin

“Believe in yourself when nobody else does.”

Believe Doe Believe In Yourself Believe In You Given Up Never Give Up On Something Belief In Yourself I Will Never Give Up Never Give In Never Ever Give Up Never Give Up Hope I Will Not Give Up Just Believe In Yourself Short Never Give Up Famous Never Give Up

Author:Mary J. Blige

“I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.”

World Reading Given Months Paper Decided Killing Bent Papers Given Up

Book:The Night Watch

Source: The Night Watch

“When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.”

Two Given Week Land Periods Leaving Covered Given Up Chairman Two Weeks Edinburgh Deputies Glasgow Mps

Author:Jeffrey Archer

“When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.”

“I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.”

Wanted Given Sound Vision Industry Amount Woods Given Up Music Industry Cabins Oregon Cabin In The Woods

Author:Skylar Grey

“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.”

Given Born Adoption Given Up

Author:Dominique Moceanu

“You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.”

May Together Given Sin Sun Kings Gods Will Caves Given Up

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life.”

Source: The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace

“It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.”

Character Given Interesting Perception Dawn Hopeful Disappointed Yearning Given Up Momentary Interesting Characters

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year. From there, people started to believe in me, and the organization believed in me, and once that happened, it was on me to take this thing on.”

People Thinking Years Believe Given Careers Happened Commitment Organization Get Better Believe In Me Given Up Stride

Author:Mike Conley, Jr.

“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.”

Ifs Lost Given Interest Existence Arms Depends Congress Refuse Affected Given Up Militia Precarious

Author:Patrick Henry

“A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.”

World Seems Given Attitude Fashion Clothes Refuse Appearance Realization Hopeless Indifferent Beaten Pathetic Given Up Inferiority Places In The World Admission Perverseness

Author:Hortense Odlum

“One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.”

Want Fighting Hope Winning Lost Given Style Vanity Admiration Given Up

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Doe Opportunity Given Ready Giving Up Difficulty Perseverance Encounters Prime Given Up Keep Trying Prime Of Life

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.”

Ifs Years Whole Would Be Given Position Equal South South Africa Manhood Given Up Suffrage

Author:Jan Smuts

“During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.”

Wanted Given Struggle Anxious Given Up I Am What I Am

Book:Personal geography: almost an autobiography

Source: Personal geography: almost an autobiography

“The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.”

Men Doe Soul Whole Body Lying Given Senses Given Up Sloth

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.”

Needs Has Beens Real Form Names Given Given Up

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?”

Persons Whole Given Whole Life Worth It Given Up Is It Worth It

Author:Richard Bach

“I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'”

War Given Stars Acting Gone Fans Havens Given Up Gone Away

Author:Daniel Logan

“People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.”

People Given Music Is Piano Given Up Viruses

Author:Christian McKay

“You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.”

People World Should Believe Doe States Given Force I Believe Nations Community Decision Cities Havens Don't Believe Compromise Inferiors Given Up Defective

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.”

Given Violence Fronts Pure Standing Workers Given Up

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.”

Ifs Given Saved Cows Given Up Breeding Buffalo

Book:How to Serve the Cow

Source: How to Serve the Cow

“Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.”

People Ifs Years Looks Given Safe Commitment Years Ago Critics Reviews Given Up

Author:John Fante

“I haven't given up drinking, just drinking a little less and going to the gym. I think when you get into your thirties you have to start. I'm not 18 anymore so you can't just be partying every day, you've got to have some kind of balance, so I try and go to the gym now once a year, that keeps me going!”

Thinking Trying Years Kind Littles Given Party Havens Balance Drinking Gym Given Up

Author:Brian McFadden

“Oh that God would give me the thing which I long for! That before I go hence and am no more seen, I may see a people wholly devoted to God, crucified to the world, and the world crucified to them. A people truly given up to God in body, soul and substance! How cheerfully would I then say, 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.'”

People World Giving May Long Soul Body Given Give Me Substance Servant Devoted Given Up

Book:The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

“I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.”

Giving School Girl Opportunity Given Realizing High School Swim Given Up

Author:Debbie Meyer

“God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?”

Stills Able Hope Given Waiting Ready Great Things Given Up

Book:Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall

Source: Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall

“The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.”

Mean Given Conditions Mankind Labor Worn Given Up Provision Worn Out

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees.”

Source: The Voice of the Heart

“Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find a handful of people that love it and more than a few other handfuls of people hate it. If I was invested in that, I would've given up long ago.”

People Ifs Looks Long Made Facts Hate Given Nice Critics Long Ago Handful Given Up

Author:David Fincher

“Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it.”

Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“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 be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.”

Writing Wells Might Used Given Messages Weekend Email Given Up Informing Olden Days

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!”

Given Crazy Given Up Love Poetry Making A Living Crazy Love

Author:Rumi

“Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.”

Given Process Mistake Ignorance Behavior Perception Greed Replaced Given Up

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.”

Should Happens Given Virtue Path Given Up Whatever Happens

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on”

“Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.”

“I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be more willing to say I'm really excited about this part of my life, but I'm screwing up over here, or this is a mistake I've made, or this is something I've given up on.”

Thinking Made Given Can Do Mistake One Thing Honest Willing Excited Given Up

Author:Debora Spar

“I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.”

People Thinking Want Speak Given Can Do Example Okay Worth It You Can Do It Given Up Speaks Out Not Worth It

Author:Ai Weiwei

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