quotes about never giving up
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. ~H.L. Mencken
There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written. ~Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript. ~William Hazlitt
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ~Mark Twain
Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ~Baxter Bell, quoted in "Worry Thwarts," Yoga Journal, March 2006
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~Buffy Sainte-Marie
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway
Really I don't dislike to cook, but what you cook is eaten so quickly. When you sew, you have something that will last to show for your efforts. ~Elizabeth Travis Johnson
When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows. ~Rachel Houston
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Life only starts when love comes. ~From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932
Treat the patient, not the Xray. ~James M. Hunter
Quote A: �There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.� ~Dave Barry
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A sister is a forever friend. ~Author Unknown
People's fates are simplified by their names. ~Elias Canetti
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~Bertrand Russell Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. ~Holbrook Jackson
I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com