Never Quit Quotes - Page 16

• I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Kind, Should

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

  Will Hermes

  Passion, Love Is, Differences

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• Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Friends, Dream, Giving Up

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• In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, World, Down And

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.465, Wildside Press LLC

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• "There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true." A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem.

  George Henry Lewes

  Real, Mistake, Two

  "Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science" by George Henry Lewes, (Ch. 4), 1864.

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• It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.

  Tom Wicker

  May, Information, Damage

  "IN THE NATION; Lesson of Lattimore" by Tom Wicker, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 1989.

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• My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Wings

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

  Simon McBurney

  Theatre, Each Day, Chaos

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• I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

  David Henry Hwang

  Ideas, Car, Theatre

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• The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

  H. L. Mencken

  Music, Symphony, Mind

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• I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

  Georges Simenon

  Home, Stranger

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• Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

  Charles Lamb

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.763, Delphi Classics

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• Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

  Joe McGinniss

  Men, Stronger, Events

  Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”

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• I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Acceptance, Thinking

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• I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

  Tim Finn

  Thinking, People, Gone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Children, Going Away, Mines

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• A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

  Edward Higgins White

  Life, Men, Good Man

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• A black belt is a white belt who never quits!

  Renzo Gracie

  White, Black, Quitting

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• Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

  Carlson Gracie

  Samurai, Quitting

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• Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Butterfly, Fighting

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8283, Delphi Classics

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• I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Fun, Careers, Peers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Letting Go, Men, Self

  Letter to Dorothy Thompson, December 29, 1927.

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• For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Children, Winter, Thinking

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• Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet.

  William Poundstone

  Sweet, Like You, Millions

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.186, Macmillan

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• We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

  Tony La Russa

  Trying, Facts, Alive

  "A postgame interview with Tony La Russa". MLB interview, stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com. October 28, 2011.

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