Praying is another way of singing.
You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.
You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.
Song for Dov Shamir
Dannie Abse
You have a beautiful classy mind but I find you physically unattractive.
Welsh Retrospective
Dannie Abse
Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
Bella Abzug
The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.
Victoria Arlen
You can take it for granted that I am not going to waste any time thinking about
giving up how happy I am at Borussia, in the city of Dortmund, and with this team.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
When that glass broke and Stone Cold
was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building,
that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.
Steve Austin
If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to
feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.
Kevin Bacon
For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man.
To be killed by you is to be desired more
than a life excluded from your service.
Bravo.
Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. Bravo!
Seeing Redd
Frank Beddor
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife
said why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?
. And it is what I have done.
Tony Benn
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when
you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Augusten Burroughs
Claire stretched out against the wall and kissed it. Glad to see you, too,
she whispered, and pressed her cheek against the smooth
surface. It almost felt like it hugged her back. Dude, it's a house,
Shane said from behind her. Hug somebody who cares.
Lord of Misrule
Rachel Caine
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you
are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter
There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like
giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
Sam Claflin
And now I'm looking at you,
he said,
and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the
thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before - bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle
and Alec, but it took years to do it - but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you,
he said,
and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I
couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then,
in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the
one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the
more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not
wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?
No
Simon said,
If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
Malachi scowled.
I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane.
They didn't,
Magnus said.
Your wards are down.
Really?
the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm.
I hadn't noticed.
Magnus looked concerned.
That's terrible. Someone should have told you.
He glanced at Luke.
Tell him the wards are down.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
Not everything is about you,
Clary said furiously.
Possibly,
Jace said,
but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
There is no pretending,
Jace said with absolute clarity.
I love you, and I
will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?
A long one?
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general,
it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.
Sean Covey
There are things I'd wish weren't part of ageing. But what you gain is much more
than you're giving up. I don't think you come into your own until you're 35 or so.
Cindy Crawford
You have certainly exceeded my expectation. I thought you would be perfect.
Robert J. Dainard
You will never be reincarnated. Anyone nicer could not be made.
Robert J. Dainard
After The Real Thing,
I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your
work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.
Jennifer Ehle
A social media fast
is a fast, I suppose like any other. In this case, you're simply giving up
whether it be a device or a particular type of social media site. And I do this at least once weekly.
Tim Ferriss
I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.
Future
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone
can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid
person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did
something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you
out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like maybe we should be just friends
turns into a glass splinter working its way into
your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
The Kindly Ones
Neil Gaiman
When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read Ulysses
and that you're just giving up on
children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?
Nick Hornby
Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.
Holly Hunter
When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of
emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.
Sebastian Junger
I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now,
I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
Kehlani
If I had a message to give my dad, it'd probably be, Thank you, thank you, thank you.
He's helped me so much on this crazy journey.
Giving up his job, being away from my mom, and being away from home for that much just because of me? It's a lot. And I thank him for it.
Chloe Kim
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your
goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an
illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.
Hoda Kotb
I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.
Jessica Lynch
You could rattle the stars,
she whispered.
You could do anything, if
only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That's what scares you most.
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
I hate wearin' sunglasses, to be honest with you. You don't need sunglasses in Ireland.
Tristan MacManus
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
Melissa Mayer
If you mind tells your body you can't do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but
you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Ant Middleton
If you want to become physically stronger, you'll need healthy habits - like going to the gym. You'll also
have to give up unhealthy habits - like eating junk food. Building mental strength requires healthy habits -
like practicing gratitude - while also giving up unhealthy behavior, like giving up after the first failure.
Amy Morin
With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time
trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.
Deirdre O'Kane
There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.
Dean Ornish
Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point
is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas
of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?
Shannon Purser
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining
your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
Scott Rudin
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, You know what? I'm giving up, I don't
care.
And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
Nicole Scherzinger
For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, OK, I don't have anything
left.
But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like,
Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.
Bob Seger
Ever think of introducing yourself?
Y.T. says.
Nah,
he says, people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is
the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
Pat Summitt
