Never Quit Quotes - Page 6

• The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Tragedy, Enough

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.80, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

  Tim Burton

  Loneliness, Successful, Feelings

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• I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.

  Maya Lin

  Pain, Cutting, Loss

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• There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.

  Christian Wiman

  Home, Ambition, Anxiety

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• I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

  Frank Mir

  Giving Up, Odds, Wish

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• Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

  Laurence Overmire

  Real, Interesting, Stories

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• I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

  Sue Wicks

  Respect, Team, Believe

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• Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Safe, Keep Going

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• To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his characters - or unworthy of tragedy, which is worse.

  Anatole Broyard

  Character, Men, Tragedy

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• If you never quit, youll never fail.

  Robert Kennedy

  Quitting, Failing, Ifs

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• My stories are never quite good enough

  Anne Tyler

  Stories, Literature, Good Enough

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• I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Healing, Doctors, Ideas

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• Nothing to do but work,
  Nothing to eat but food,
  Nothing to wear out but clothes,
  To keep one from going nude.

  Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.

  Clothes, Quitting, Nothingness

  "The Pessimist". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• You make a mistake, you keep going.

  Linda Gray

  Mistake, Quitting, Keep Going

  "Larry Hagman and Linda Gray Share Their Memories of 'Dallas'". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2000.

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• The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

  Squarepusher

  Mind, Trying, Territory

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• Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Winning, Marijuana, Years

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• I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Thinking, Missing, Quitting

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• I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

  Stephanie Mills

  Trying, Quitting, Given

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• So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine.

  James Marsters

  Angel, Hair, Way

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• We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

  Emma Anderson

  Thinking, Bored, Done

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• But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

  Ed Rendell

  Running, Long, Pennsylvania

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• The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Fire, Rereading

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• If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Father, Quitting, Jokes

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• We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Teamwork, Effort, Saint

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• I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction.

  Jan Brewer

  People, Arizona, Pushing

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