Given Up Quotes

aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

I have never given up on men easily.

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.

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

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech.

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

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

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them.

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

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

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.

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.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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.

My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

Oh that moment when Daniel thought he’d lost her to Cam’s starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he’d given up all hope.

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