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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.
I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don’t give up even when others say, It can’t be done.
Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!
I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.
Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even if we don't feel like doing it?
Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.
The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.
The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up the will to live.
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
One of my roles is rebounding the ball and not giving up offensive boards, and I feel like I can be one of the best in the league at that.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.
You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.
If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.
A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe.
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.
She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm.
Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one's resolve to retaliate.
What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.
Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.
You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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.
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.
I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.
I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.
You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they didn't measure up or wanted to quit - look up get up and don't ever give up.
The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.