Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself. — Fred Green Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. — George Allen Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists,… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform. — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
“Never give up. Never give up on your hopes. Never give up on your dreams. Never give up on your visions.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
