Never Quit Quotes - Page 16

• Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the next thing, because it was never quite what I wanted. I think the moment you think you've arrived is the moment that you should stop.

  Simon McBurney

  Thinking, Theatre, Pieces

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• I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Change, Dream, Memories

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• Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.

  Bear Grylls

  Strong, Clever, Hard Work

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• I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

  Peter Jennings

  Mean, Objectivity, People

  Larry King Interview, September 08, 2003.

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• An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Self, People

  "Conquering Self-centeredness". Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, August 11, 1957.

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• It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said. It wasn’t much in the way of comfort, but everything has a little failure in it, and we still make do somehow.

  Kevin Powers

  Talking, Comfort, Littles

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

  Renzo Gracie

  White, Black, Quitting

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

  Carlson Gracie

  Samurai, Quitting

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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