Give It Up Quotes

#1. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

Anna Freeman

#2. WHAT IT IS
It is what
it is. But
what is it?
What it is
Some soft
tautology
whose terms
are touch
Time to give, time
to give it up.

Maggie Nelson

#3. She make me beg for it until she give it up

Drake

#4. Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.

Alma Gluck

#5. You could only express ownership of a thing in terms of how freely you could give it up

Steven King

#6. If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

Joanna Southcott

#7. I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up.

Woody Harrelson

#8. I'll sell it. I'll give it up. I'd give it all up for you. Anything. Everything. Everything for us. If it means that I can keep you, that it will make you happy, then I'll do it. Whatever it is. Just say the word.

M. Leighton

#9. You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

Roger Federer

#10. If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.

Robin Oliveira

#11. I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it.

Steven Wright

#12. Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Anna Pavlova

#13. If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. Surely you can entrust your task to your friends."
"No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice."
"If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice.

Lloyd Alexander

#15. I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.

Travis Thrasher

#16. I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.

Michael Gambon

#17. My anger was an exciting feeling, and I didn't give it up easily. I was ready to fight.

Daniel Keyes

#18. There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#19. The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.

Michael Ashcroft

#20. You must have something in order to give it up.

M. Scott Peck

#21. Try not to come back."
"Oh, I'll be back, but it'll be to ask you out."
"Give it up, jock. It's not going to happen."
"We'll see.

Jaci Burton

#22. The question now isn't whether I want to fool around with this man. The question is how I'm ever going to give it up.

Sarina Bowen

#23. My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power!

Julieanne O'Connor

#24. Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

Alice Hoffman

#25. There's nobody taking center from me until I give it up.

Joe DiMaggio

#26. Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.

Sue Monk Kidd

#27. It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up.

Laura Schlessinger

#28. The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.

Robert Mandel

#29. Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Michelangelo

#30. The true test of love is not always 'Will you fight for it?' The real test of true love is often 'Are you willing to give it up?

Tiffany Reisz

#31. The times have changed. To move with them I had to give it up. I do not miss it. I thought I would, but I don't.

M. Scott Peck

#32. I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

Emily Saliers

#33. Silence is ammunition, darlin'. Don't give it up before you're sure of the facts and know you can win.

Pepper Winters

#34. It's been a long time since I felt something like hope. Don't ask me to give it up for Netflix and a Prius.

Tiffany Reisz

#35. I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

Michael Caine

#36. Golf was my life. I didn't want to give it up. So I went to work!

Ben Hogan

#37. It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Stephen Hawking

#38. If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

Vicky McClure

#39. When something weighs on your conscience, give it up.

Muhammad

#40. I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

Louis D. Brandeis

#41. Like that box held the last little piece of what was normal, and I wasn't ready to give it up just yet.

Sarah Dessen

#42. I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.

Mackenzie Davis

#43. The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it up. They practiced segregation. They practiced lynchings. I don't see any great value in that.

John Shelby Spong

#44. In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

Mark Hamill

#45. You can't lose your identity unless you give it up. No one can take it from you,

Danielle Steel

#46. I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

Salma Hayek

#47. Love will never let you down, if you don't give it up

Benny Bellamacina

#48. You are the reason my heart beats. Your love is my lifeline, and I'm not about to give it up - not now - not ever!

Emily Rose Philips

#49. Well I can understand why men want it to be legal. Obviously they're all hoping they might get to marry me someday. I hate to burst their bubble, but they should just give it up now. Zach Braff doesn't sway that way, you know?

Zach Braff

#50. Remember when the sound of little feet was the music We danced to week to week Brought back the love, we found trust Vowed we'd never give it up Remember when Alan Jackson, "Remember When

Denise Jackson

#51. If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

Joseph Goebbels

#52. I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Nawal El Saadawi

#53. Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

Cecily Strong

#54. Free time is the easiest thing to sacrifice," Defiant said. "It costs you, to give it up, but there's little guilt.

Wildbow

#55. If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

Charles Spurgeon

#56. Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.

William McGregor Paxton

#57. It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

Srikumar Rao

#58. My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.

Audre Lorde

#59. Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey - or anyone else for that matter - is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.

Vera Nazarian

#60. Man I been did that. Man I been popped off. And if she aint tryna to give it up she get dropped off.

Nicki Minaj

#61. It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

#62. You know its shape, since you have it. Give it up, and be paid. Or don't - and be paid, hani, be paid then too.

C.J. Cherryh

#63. Never give up, no, never give up
If you're looking for something easy
You might as well give it up.

Cat Power

#64. Need was Adam's baseline, his resting pulse. Love was a privilege. Adam was privileged; he did not want to give it up. He wanted to remember again and again how it felt.

Maggie Stiefvater

#65. Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulating, and people had quickly adjusted to the idea of profound human tragedy. They were reluctant to give it up, Sully could tell. He smiled apologetically at the crowd.

Richard Russo

#66. At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless.

Matsuo Basho

#67. I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

#68. The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau

#69. Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied: "What's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter

Lewis Carroll

#70. It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.

Ruth Wilson

#71. The reason why I'm in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up.

Michael Gove

#72. I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

Andy Warhol

#73. Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Chesterfield.

Orison Swett Marden

#74. I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Rachel Maddow

#75. Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Margaret Atwood

#76. If one's life is so unsatisfying that an unhealthy activity brings a shred of happiness, it is nigh impossible to give it up unless something that brings greater happiness can be enjoyed in its stead. (28)

Prem Prakash

#77. I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, nor would I, could I, ever give it up.

Jillian Medoff

#78. Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they're working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.

Craig Bierko

#79. Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

Craig Silvey

#80. Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!

Tarek Saab

#81. Sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don't want to just retire. No, I enjoy it all and you just keep going until the day comes when you can't do it anymore. And that's what I want to do.

Anthony Hopkins

#82. All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.

Lynne Truss

#83. I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

George Harrison

#84. You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.

Lindsay Lohan

#85. Pop said life was like learning to drive. You were bound to fuck up, make mistakes, maybe even cause an accident, but if you practice and follow the rules, people didn't have to get hurt - and one day you'd just get better at it. Just don't . . . give it up, he said.

Anyta Sunday

#86. Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.

Kenneth Fisher

#87. It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

Tom Watson

#88. Dean Di Laurentis is in my blood now. I didn't expect the intense sexual chemistry between us, but it's here, and it's addictive, and I don't know how I can ever give it up.

Elle Kennedy

#89. There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.

Jeanette Winterson

#90. There is a moment when all things can be beautiful, heroic. That moment when life defies death and defeat ... Life and death can be beautiful, and noble, when you fight for your life, but also when you give it up without compromise.

Haydee Santamaria

#91. Hey, Barack Obama had to give up his Blackberry. He's the first wired president ... He might have to give his Blackberry because of security reasons. Because they're easy to hack into. In fact, when Obama heard he might have to give it up, he said, 'OMG! WTF?' I mean, he couldn't believe it.

Jay Leno

#92. This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.

Paolo Uccello

#93. Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#94. They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.

Dennis Wilson

#95. When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.

Marty Rubin

#96. The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

Jim Rohn

#97. Oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love
not this efficient, philanthropic self.

Ruth Benedict

#98. In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up.

Debbie Ford

#99. I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#100. Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

Ricky Hatton