Top 1200 Given Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

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

But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

Given that everyone's got a voice, it's the age of the democratisation of information through digital technology. That means women can rise up, and people of colour can rise up, and these stories are much more present to us. And that's great.

Women are always murdered and maimed, and they’re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst] has just written what should have been written a long time ago. There shouldn’t be anything that different about Vikings, but there is, because there’ve just been so many shows that have not stepped up to the plate and given female actors and female characters equal footing.

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken up in anyone else's life, so I've got to understand this one. The only skill I was given is this painting.

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

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

When you put your all in and people say 'he has given up,' that is hard to take.

My father's death has given me a lot. It has given me a lifelong love of women, of their grittiness and hardness - traits that we are not supposed to value as feminine. It has also given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness - traits that we do not foster as masculine or allow ourselves to associate with masculinity.

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.

The best present I've ever given someone is myself. I've given it to everyone.

Hell is given up so reluctantly by those who don't expect to go there

Anybody who says they're bitter is sick in their soul. They've given up.

I'll play anywhere for Arsenal, but hopefully, given my chance up front, I can do something, because I've always been more of a striker than a winger, and I think I could show a bit more up front.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

I think that I represent people that sometimes don't have a voice because of how they grew up or where they grew up or the options that were given to them. I was able to kick my way out of that, but we have a real class problem in this country, where it's hard to jump classes.

God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.

Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives, we won't have very much. But if we add up the spaces *between* the rewards, we'll come up with quite a bit. And if we add up the rewards *and* the spaces, then we'll have everything - every minute of the time that we spent.

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.

When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

People were asleep, but I think they're waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they've got to get involved.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

I've given up trying to reason with people who despise me.

When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach.

No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?