“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.”
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Christopher Paul Curtis 4
American children's writer 1953Related quotes
Losing Hope
Song lyrics, Brushfire Fairytales (2001)
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.”
From Starts With Goodbye from the album, Some Hearts (2005). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
“You're trying to make sense
of something that you just don't see”
"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.
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.