Persist Quotes

329 Persist quotes by 270 unique authors

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as… — Albert Memmi
You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you. — Robert Breault
One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book… — Ezra Pound
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. — Frank Moore Colby
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows… — Alan Bennett
... in the midst of death life persists ... — Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is… — Mahatma Gandhi
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under… — Mahatma Gandhi
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he… — Aldous Huxley
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West. — Henry A. Kissinger
Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk. — Paul Sarbanes
I persist in performing. — David Tudor
There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that… — Douglas Adams
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily… — Bertrand Russell
The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic. — Rae Foley
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally… — Algernon Blackwood
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as… — Julianna Baggott
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures… — Russ Carnahan
There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or… — Edwin Percy Whipple
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data… — Stephen Jay Gould
The way things happen on social media is so abusive and everyone needs to take personal responsibility for what they write and not allowing this… — Ashley Judd

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