Never Quit Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

  Ajay Devgan

  Believe, Successful, Film

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

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Father, Quitting, Jokes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

  Monica Dickens

  Joy, Riding, Complicated

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• I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

  Steve Israel

  Trying, Quitting, Constituents

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• You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.

  Cobi Jones

  Night, Fans, Use

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• Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Notebook, Hate

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• Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

  Joanne Woodward

  Children, Growing Up, People

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• Nature's never quite
  Sure she hasn't erred
  In her vague design.

  Robert Frost

  God, Design, Vague

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.

  Stephen Fry

  Sexuality

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

  Mark Cuban

  Answers, Wrong Things, Beaten

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.25, Diversion Books

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• The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise, Powerful, Pride

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.303, Library of Alexandria

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• Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

  Horace

  Track, Lame, Legs

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• I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.

  Dolly Parton

  Trying, Quitting

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