Quitting Quotes - Page 15

• Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

  Mary Matalin

  Politics

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• If you are feeling tired or ill, rest. Your body will always want rest and ease if it's sick. When you become quiet, ask your body what you need to do in order to heal yourself. Your body may tell you to change certain habits, eat more wholesome food, express some feelings, quit your job, see a doctor, or it may have some other message for you, but there is always an answer available to you. The key is to ask and then listen honestly for a response.

  Shakti Gawain

  Jobs, Tired, Order

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• Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Determination, Sight, Discovery

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• I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.

  Charles Macaulay

  Boys, Play, May

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• Rest when you need to, but never quit.

  John Wooden

  Never Quit, Needs

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• Hell is in the here and now. So is Heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside us this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

  Elif Safak

  Dream, Falling In Love, Hate

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• I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.

  John Updike

  Country, Athlete, Trying

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• Some things are best mended by a break.

  Edith Wharton

  Break

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1543, Delphi Classics

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• I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Inns

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• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Book, Reading

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

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• If I was traded to the Giants, I'd quit baseball

  Rocky Colavito

  Baseball, Giants, Ifs

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• Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, Spring, Teaching

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Regret, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

  Mike Royko

  Sports, Hero, Jordan

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2523, Agate Digital

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• I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

  Tiger Woods

  Determination, Mean, Play

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• You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Jobs, Labels, Stylist

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• There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Blood, Years

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• I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

  Don DeLillo

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

  O. J. Simpson

  Football, Silly, Player

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• It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Easy, Enough, Pastime

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• As one woman told me, "When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy." This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks' notice, she woke up happy. At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn't quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she's still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

  Bernie Siegel

  Jobs, Work, Years

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• If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Taken

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Hurt, Winning

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.8, Triumph Books

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• Well, I have a message for the nameless , gutless whimperers out there. Quit whining. Unlike some other shows, we here at CROSSFIRE actually present both sides of the issue. ... Look, if you want namby-pamby one-sided arguments go to Fox.

  Paul Begala

  Liberal Media, Issues, Looks

  "How Should Sex be Discussed in America's Classrooms?; Should Cameras be Allowed in Blake Trial?". “CNN Crossfire”, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2002.

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Character, Healing

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

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