quotes on giving up

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad



History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~Oscar Wilde



This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Author Unknown



The more I see of men, the more I like dogs. ~Madame de Stael



Half of my heart is deployed. ~Author Unknown



My husband is a human pincushion. ~Author Unknown



Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. ~Terri Guillemets



We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school? ~Henry Mintzberg



Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts. ~Anonymous, winner of February 2011 quotegarden Twitter create your own quote contest



The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist. ~D.H. Lawrence



The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one. ~Edward Noyes Westcott



No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb



Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost



The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. ~Claude Bernard



Quote A: �It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.� ~Jessamyn West



As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. ~Eric Sevareid



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 about the house with a saintly expression. ~Beverly Nichols



Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman. ~Woody Allen



One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust