Gave Quotes

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

George W. Bush even stopped in Pennsylvania to try his hand at the lotto and gave up when he could only think of the numbers 4 and 17

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he (Gadhafi) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

...you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

We gave up everything just to sit at your table.

Always remember that if you give up in life, life didn't give up on you, you gave up on life.

I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was pus and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home in Barcelona and family in Barcelona to come to Liverpool shows how much faith I have in Rafael Benitez.

He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.

Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.

I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up.

I can't function without coffee and I cannot refuse chocolate. Drink I gave up years ago and don't miss it in the slightest. But I think I'd collapse without coffee.

He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

She was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me, had three jobs, supported me, sacrificed her life for me.

Comedians don't get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can't really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.

But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.