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Giving Up Quotes (page 12)

In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen. John Ralston Saul
In association with the ordinary run of men I have had but little to win or to lose ... My companions have with few exceptions exerted no marked influence on me ... So I am standing once more at the point where I must begin in another way. I shall now try to look calmly at myself and begin to act inwardly; for only in this way will I be able ... to call myself 'I' in a profounder sense ... So let the die be cast - I am crossing the Rubicon. This road no doubt leads me into battle, but I will... Soren Kierkegaard
Emile M. Cioran quote: "All that is Life in me urges me to give up God."
All that is Life in me urges me to give up God. Emile M. Cioran
The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before. - "The Bridges of Madison County" Robert James Waller
A while back, my friend Graydon Carter mentioned that he was opening a restaurant in New York. I cautioned him against this, because it’s my theory that owning a restaurant is the kind of universal fantasy everyone ought to grow out of, sooner rather than later, or else you will be stuck with the restaurant. There are many problems that come with owning a restaurant, not the least of which is that you have to eat there all the time. Giving up the fantasy that you want to own a restaurant is... Nora Ephron
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself. Mark Twain
Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through..."
Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds. Gordon B. Hinckley
Mitch Albom quote: "Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up."
Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up. Mitch Albom
The colors on the river faded, the rain began, and the river began to rise. It was apparent that the sun would soon give up the tremendous struggle it cost her to get to Paris for a few hours every day. James Baldwin
The Germans will be beaten in a few months. And Japan will be beaten a few months after that. If I were to give up my life now, it wouldn't be for my country. It would be for Cathcart and Korn. So I'm turning my bombsight in for the duration. From now on I'm thinking only of me. Joseph Heller
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all. Jack Kerouac
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining..."
Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything. Judy Blume
I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later! Gustave Flaubert
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. Elizabeth Gilbert

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