There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and Im never going to break the world record… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean… — Adele Griffin Copy Share Image
A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them. — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined… — Ron Kurtz Copy Share Image
I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen… — Drew Busby Copy Share Image
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
I know that my job is to perform, it wouldn't be a very interesting show if I just came out one day… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables. — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father… — Anne Hull Copy Share Image
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison Copy Share Image
A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for… — Sam Huntington Copy Share Image
I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate… — Roone Arledge Copy Share Image
If this nice friendliness would spread out in Mordor, half our trouble would be over. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
I initially got a job at Disneyland through a friend who was working there. He said, 'You would make a great princess… — Sarah Butler Copy Share Image