Quitting Quotes - Page 23

• If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.

  David Walton

  Hockey, Play, Know How

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• We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

  Ethel Waters

  Missing, Judgment, Knows

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• The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

  Owen Feltham

  Angel, Men, Boundaries

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• Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Quilts, Couple, Believe

  Abigail Scott Duniway (2000). “"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper”

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• Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Islands, Might, Born

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• I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.

  Steve Jobs

  World, Littles, Slides

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• I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and can’t quit.

  Mario Lemieux

  Pride, Thinking, Jersey

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• It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

  Paul Gruchow

  Running, Race, Rats

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• That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it
  I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it
  And if I didn't think it was worth one single try
  I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly

  Frank Sinatra

  Baby, Heart, Thinking

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• The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion that we want to quit paying a hidden tax and be up front about covering people in a way that is cost-effective.

  Barack Obama

  Stupid, Fighting, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars.

  Ron White

  Smoking, Months, Saving

  Source: easterncarolinastyle.com

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• I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

  Dave Barry

  Meaningful, Jobs, Real

  "The Phil Factor Interview with Dave Barry! (yes, that Dave Barry)". thephilfactor.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Depressing, Jobs, Creativity

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV, How the Idea Came about, His Collaborative Company, Inspiring People to Contribute, and Plans for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I knew that if I woke up hung over, I couldn't do the best possible job on the show, so I had to quit. Also, I'd consumed a lot of beer for a lot of years, and I thought, That's enough. I've had my fun and I'm glad I quit.

  David Letterman

  Jobs, Fun, Beer

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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• I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

  Billy Crystal

  Grateful, Drinking, Years

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Death, Heart, Garden

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• Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Writing, Radio

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• Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Son, Artist, Acting

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks FRANKIE GO BOOM, the Success of SONS OF ANARCHY, His Desire to Direct, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

  Melanie Griffith

  Mean, Smoking, I Quit

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

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• After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my car.

  Robin Williams

  Drinking, Car, I Quit

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• When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

  Will Smith

  Running, Hurt, Tired

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• If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.65

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• Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

  George Herbert

  Desire, Dies

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.315

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• I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

  Keith Coogan

  Years, Motorcycle, Sailor

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• You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

  Criss Angel

  Kissing, Trying, Care

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