![Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.](/assets/img/quote-photos/tam-lin-says-rabbits-give-up-when-theyre-caught-by-coyotes-he-says-they-c.jpg)
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giving-up dont-give-up beats
It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up. Babe Ruth
giving-up real struggle
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing. Baruch Spinoza
giving-up struggle want
Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it. Ayn Rand
giving-up pay-the-price long
You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose. Brian Tracy
giving-up dont-give-up trying
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. Charles Kettering
giving-up people good-intentions
People with good intentions never give up! Jane Smiley
giving-up soul want
My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films. Brigitte Bardot
giving-up done proud
I'm very proud of myself because I have come so close to just giving up and I haven't done that. Brandy Norwood
giving-up years two
I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself Bobby Darin
fighting fights-and-fighting retailers
The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard. Steve Gross
fighting thinking community
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval. Archie Panjabi
fighting numbers mind
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.
fighting feel-good making-a-difference
It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you. Brenda Strong
fighting challenges tasks
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds. Jane Hamilton
fighting feet missing
I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked. Channing Tatum
fighting giving empathy
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance. Arundhati Roy
fighting pigs choices
I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way. Cloris Leachman
fighting second-chance years
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. Bobby Scott
animal hate people
People are well-intentioned. They hate to see an animal starve.
animals climate compared easy facts less life people perhaps privileged stunned survive takes time
The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies. Alex Honnold
animal beat few finish horses quarter runs second
There are very few horses that can go with this horse for the first half-mile. He runs the second quarter as fast, if not faster, than the first quarter and he can finish from there. He's an exceptional animal, and it is really going to take an exceptional animal to beat him.
animal want remember
I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals. Jane Goodall
animal individuality intuition
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
animals permits rest
We did get permits to take some of those animals out and retrain the rest of them. Jack Smith
animal institutions existence
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals. Gary L. Francione
animal important use
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.
animal animal-rights species
It's animal by animal that you save a species. Diane Ackerman