Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
It’s about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.
If you said, ‘I’m giving up smoking,’ people would put on a parade. If you said, ‘I’m going to eat more healthily,’ people would say, ‘Good for you.’ If it’s drinking, the first reaction is, ‘That’s so boring. You’re going to be so boring.’
A lot of people are giving up on politics and thinking they can solve issues with technology. These kind of arrogant behaviors towards the rest of the society are a bit disgusting.
What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don’t give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it’s not easy.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
When I came out, I thought coming out meant giving up a marriage and a family. That was, to me, the most difficult part of the coming-out process.
I’m not giving up acting, I’m definitely not going to stop.
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you’re giving up – look over your shoulder and look at what falls away.
I was 25 when I’d told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn’t have been less enthusiastic if I’d proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.
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?
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
The best thing is to go public only when you’re absolutely sure that’s the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
When you think about it, giving up your ‘real’ personality is a small price to pay for the richness of ‘living happily ever after’ with an actual man!
I don’t like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don’t want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I’m not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else’s job. I just can’t think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
The broad consensus is that our system should be better structured to deter crimes without giving up on everyone who commits them, and should better balance resources to hold violent criminals fully accountable without imposing unnecessarily harsh sentences on nonviolent offenders.
I don’t give in and I don’t believe in giving up. This comes naturally to me, I know no other way.
I’ve twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.
I was almost giving up because the chemo was so intense and aggressive that there were moments I had to find the inner strength within myself.
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.
To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it’s OK to eat the ones that don’t have any nuts.
There’s no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that’s even better, and quickly.
For all those, who ever think of giving up and give in what others have to say, I would say hold onto your dream and watch it come alive, just like mine.
It’s a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can’t really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
I hate the Communists and have for many years and don’t feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I’m not giving up.
I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
I wore a padded bra every single day and night from the age of 14 until I was 31. Giving up padding was my New Year’s resolution. I had known for ages that wearing a stuffed bra was a form of hiding my real body.
There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.
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.
But the point of a progressive revenue tax is that you create incentives both for breakups, you penalize the acquisitions, and you encourage the development of models where the customers are customers and they know what they’re giving up.
I could have gone professional, but I’m not giving up on my dream.
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
A huge problem we face when we’re in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren’t. That’s the past. Let it go.
Between 2018 and 2020, I contemplated giving up the sport at various points.
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.
I’m a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.
Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
At the end of the day, when you have more points than the other team, you win. So, defensively, it’s all about not giving up touchdowns. It’s about trying to keep them off the board.
I don’t really take no for an answer. Giving up isn’t an option.
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?
When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That’s when the sparkle started for me.
I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
Most canele recipes begin with an instruction to brush $30 copper molds with melted beeswax. Unsurprisingly, I’ve never made it past the Internet search for ‘used canele molds’ before giving up.
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
