Persistent Quotes

271 quotes by 236 authors

Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart! — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up,… — Cintra Wilson
If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of… — Rhonda Byrne
There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as… — George Carlin
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle… — Henri Nouwen
The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence. — Sara Gruen
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland,… — Terry Pratchett
Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu… — Confucius
Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more… — Jonathan Safran Foer
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more… — Marcel Proust
But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles… — Frank Herbert
As long as you like me the best. And you think Iâ€™m good-lookingâ€”sort of. Iâ€™m prepared to be annoyingly persistent. — Stephenie Meyer
But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we… — Anne Rice
True education is a kind of never ending story â€” a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness. — J.R.R. Tolkien
People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger… — Deb Caletti
But, as Einstein once said, â€œFor we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.â€5 — Brian Greene
One tended to lose oneâ€™s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it… — Tom Robbins
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God. — Andrew Murray

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