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No ground gained was ever relinquished.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
Our daughter was not damaged or hurt in any way. She was simply relinquished to foster care by two people who were not ready to be parents. I admire them for giving her the chance for a better life. And I am grateful they gave my husband and me the opportunity to be parents.
The average American husband has relinquished his responsibility as head of his household. Though the wife is partly at fault, he is mostly to blame. I'm not suggesting that women should return to the subservient position before their emancipation when they were virtually slaves of their husbands. But freedom for women can be overdone.