“There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.”
Source: Bud, Not Buddy
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Christopher Paul Curtis4
American children's writer 1953Related quotes
Jack Johnson (musician) (1975) American musician
Losing Hope
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Quoted by Richard Rhodes in Wikipedia: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
“But when you're standing at a crossroad, there's a choice you've got to make.”
Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer
From Starts With Goodbye from the album, Some Hearts (2005). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
Terri Farley (1950) American writer
Source: Seven Tears Into the Sea
“You're trying to make sense
of something that you just don't see”
Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician
"This Is The Sea"
This Is the Sea (1985)
Context: You're trying to make sense
of something that you just don't see
You're trying to make sense now
and you know you once held the key
But that was the river
this is the sea.
“Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.”
Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen
Source: Faith of the Fallen
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, Concession speech (2000)
Context: This is America. Just as we fight hard when the stakes are high, we close ranks and come together when the contest is done. And while there will be time enough to debate our continuing differences, now is the time to recognize that that which unites us is greater than that which divides us. While we yet hold and do not yield our opposing beliefs, there is a higher duty than the one we owe to political party. This is America and we put country before party; we will stand together behind our new president.