1,952 Quotes About Giving-up

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting...Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice.

Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

We don't even get food for 2 times a day, still I didn't give up and continued to play football

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.