Sentence examples for mind to quit from inspiring English sources

But they could not make up their mind to quit".

Four years later, after studying confirmatory reports by French researchers, James wrote to Eleanor Sidgwick that now to him 'the proof seems overwhelming, and it has been an enormous relief to my mind to quit the balancing attitude which I have voluntarily maintained for 15 years, and come to a stable belief in the matter' (1 August 1907, Skrupskelis and Berkeley, 1992 2004: XI, 405 6).

The rational mind wants to quit the horrible job; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the present routine.

I also learned that I had had no idea of my own limits: when I was exhausted after humping up and down jungle mountains in 100-degree heat with a 75-pound pack, terrified out of my mind, wanting only to quit, convinced I couldn't take another step, I found that in fact I could keep going for miles.

When Liz can't change Jack's mind, Jenna threatens to quit her job.

"The standard thing is to say that you expect to be here two more years, or five more years" -- or until you hit "the number," the amount of wealth people have in mind as allowing them to quit.

Everything you do to cope with an addiction to pain pills should be done with that goal in mind, whether you intend to quit tomorrow or a year or more from now.

In my mind I wasn't going to quit.

It's fine to draw a line in your mind -- if you need to quit, you need to quit -- but don't threaten.

"It took a while to get my mind around it". Bruising as these exits have been, Mr. Corzine is not quite ready to quit the public arena.

A man won't believe she can read minds "till I tell him to quit trying to picture me naked," she says.