Quotes about quit
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“I hope you find peace, my brother. (Acheron)
Peace walks hand in hand with a quite conscience. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

“It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.”

Edward Said (1935–2003) Professor of English and literature

People, Change

“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Variant: If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

“It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out.”

Naomi Novik book Black Powder War

Source: Black Powder War

“When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

Parting, Perfection

“The little pig began to pray
But Wolfie blew his house away.
He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham!
Oh what a lucky wolf I am!"
And though he ate the pig quite fast,
He carefully kept the tail till last.”

Roald Dahl book Revolting Rhymes

Source: Revolting Rhymes

Wolf, Housing

“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”

Peter Singer book Animal Liberation

Source: Animal Liberation

Future

“After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?'

'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?'

'Because I have just called you contrary and you did not bother to contradict me. I thought you might be ill.”

Deanna Raybourn (1968) American writer

Source: Silent on the Moor

“Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Love, Money

“My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Heart

“He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Boy

“As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: In a Sunburned Country

World

“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: Moral Disorder and Other Stories

Learning

“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

Pain

“Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.”

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) novelist from Dominica

Source: Quartet

Books, Solitude

“Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Speed

“I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness--and that's the fear of it.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Ladies of the Corridor

Fear, Learning, Loneliness

“Well, what? Sophie-"
"I hit her on the head with a mirror," Sophie said hopelessly. "One of those silver-backed ones, so it was quite heavy. She went down just like a stone, miss. So I… I tied her to the bed and I came looking for you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.”

Jeff Lindsay (1952) American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich

Source: Dexter By Design

Idea

“I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?”
“I’ve always been a stick-in-the-mud.” Her brother cast her a thin smile. “I just hid it beneath all the debauchery.”
She sniffed. “I wish you’d hide it again. It’s quite annoying.”

Sabrina Jeffries (1960) American writer

Source: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

Smile

“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”

Ted Turner (1938) American media mogul and philanthropist

Motivational, For Team

“Do you think it would be quite so easy to kill them now that your weapon has been destroyed?' he sneered. 'No,' she said, frowning at him, 'Obviously not.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Thinking

“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Night

“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Chance

“If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.”

Tariq Ramadan (1962) Swiss muslim scholar

Source: What I Believe

“I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Middlemarch

Men, Dance

“When I'm 33, I quit.”

Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

“Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs.”

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

Stanza 3
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale

Men, Youth, Sadness, Thinking

“If I lose control, you'll be the first to know."
"I'm quite perturbed by the idea.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Idea

“No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.”

Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Home, Daughters

“A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Variant: A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Motivational, Deep, Success, Inspirational

“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”

Connie Willis book To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Cats

“There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we”

Ina May Gaskin (1940) American midwife

Men

“These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

People, Justice, Effort

“I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.”

Jerome K. Jerome book Diary of a Pilgrimage

Source: Diary of a Pilgrimage

Idea, Thinking

“Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.”

Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870) French poet

Source: Maldoror and the Complete Works

Life

“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Life, Idea, Decision, Change

“On the other hand, it is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Variant: It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.”

Steve Martin book The Pleasure of My Company

Source: The Pleasure of My Company

“people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

People, Thinking

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.”

Enid Blyton (1897–1968) author

Source: The Rubadub Mystery

People, Personality

“Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.”

Ian McEwan (1948) British author

People

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2

“They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest (1996)

“terror finally becomes almost
bearable
but never quite

terror creeps like a cat
crawls like a cat
across my mind”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Cats

“Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah…" Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word.

"Equals?" Miles hazarded.

"Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Vor Game

Source: The Vor Game

“Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 "War Situation" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1940/jun/18/war-situation#column_52. <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945)

Past, Future

“If you try to quit I will eat you!”

Anne Bishop book Murder of Crows

Source: Murder of Crows

“I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"But… you did something nice. Why?"
He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Madness

“It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

Parent, Perfection

“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”

Lawrence Durrell book Justine

Source: Justine

Happiness, Lie, Memory

“Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Variant: Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
Source: Transformations

Heart

“I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Guy, Time, Reading

“Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

People, Understanding

“Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache—the kind that one could almost—but never quite—ignore.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Duke and I

Pain, Way, Learning

“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

People

“We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not the
one.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Men, Cry

“I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

People, Family, History, Box

“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

Roger Zelazny book This Immortal

Source: This Immortal

Dead

“Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back, but I don't quite catch it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Sleep

“I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out.
But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

Life, Change

“Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Dreams

“Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”

Beverley Nichols (1898–1983) Author, playwright, journalist, composer

Source: Beverley Nichols' Cats' A Z

Feeling, Cats, Housing

“As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.”

Ambeth R. Ocampo book Rizal Without the Overcoat

Source: Rizal Without the Overcoat

School

“Let’s talk.” I pinned Red to his chair with my stare. I did deranged quite well, when the occasion required.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.”
“Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

Love, Pain, Time

“Just those three words, said and meant. I love you.

They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer.

His fairy story.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

Love

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

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Money, People, Funny, Back To Work

“Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.”

Michael Shermer (1954) American science writer

Animals

“I didn't answer, but, please—nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Boy

“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn’t have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Variant: She was desperate and she was choosey
at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what
she imagined herself to be.
Source: Factotum

Beauty, Way, Imagination, Time

“All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.”

Graham Greene The Tenth Man

Source: The Tenth Man

People

“What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

Children, Law, Fight

“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement …”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

As cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 511,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Context: My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement … Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one’s better half.

“There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"
…
"Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Soul, Baby

“You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Secret Vampire

People, Imagination

“I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“It's always to soon to quit!”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

“He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

People, Idea

“Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”

Anne Rice book The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Queen of the Damned

Love, Feeling, Thinking, Perfection

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”

Chuck Palahniuk book Pygmy

Source: Pygmy

People, Quotes

“Witches don’t just quit”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

The Girl with No Shadow

“I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying."
- Prince Kheldar of Drasnia”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

Source: Demon Lord of Karanda

World, Cry

“Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.”

Alan Bennett The History Boys

Source: The History Boys

“Ummm…” She licked her lips. “Define fun.”
“Quit doing that, jailbait. It’s distracting.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

“She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.”

Raymond Chandler book The Lady in the Lake

Source: The Lady in the Lake (1943), chapter 1
Context: The little blonde at the PBX cocked a shell-like ear and smiled a small fluffy smile. She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.

Housing

“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children."

from chapter VIII of Les Miserables”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Children, Girl

“There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Friendship

“A loud booming noise interrupted us, and we saw a flash of light off to my right. People near the other garages screamed.

"There, you see?" asked Abe, quite pleased with himself. "A new gate. Perfect timing.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

People, Light, Time, Perfection

“One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Pain, Hurt

“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

A Gift of Wings (1974)
Source: https://books.google.de/books?id=InUpHgnif58C&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=An+old+maxim+says+that+a+professional+writer+is+an+amateur+who+didn%27t+quit&source=bl&ots=RpDceaKvsx&sig=ACfU3U0n2qLBUs3E_5CDTfLDvLPmk3tB7A&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB16L5_5jyAhWlgf0HHeQyD2oQ6AF6BAgREAM#v=onepage&q=An%20old%20maxim%20says%20that%20a%20professional%20writer%20is%20an%20amateur%20who%20didn't%20quit&f=false A Gift of Wings