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

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

If you can't do it, give up!

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.