Giving Up Quotes - Page 114

I wouldn't give up on Russia, and with oil at $90 a barrel, they can refurbish their strategic capabilities and under an authoritarian regime, those nuclear weapons are still there and in the wrong hands we might have a problem again.

Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Iran said it will give up trying to make a nuclear weapon. But it got awkward when Iran said, 'But just for Lent. We'll start again on Monday.'

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

In the words of Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to start with. We have it: just to look at the power of fighting student debt or 25 million Latinos who learned that the Republicans are the party that hate and fear but Democrats are the party of people deportation and detention.

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!

I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going.

I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.

The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and...want to give up or try to work something out on our own.

Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.

You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future.