Best Persistently Quotes
68 Persistently quotes by 64 unique authors
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It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --…
— Epictetus
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Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The…
— Susan B. Anthony
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If you have a little inteligence, sooner or later the question is bound to arise: What is the point of it all? Why? It is…
— Rajneesh
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
— Muhammad Ali
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Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.
— Malalai Joya
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At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does…
— Gilbert Highet
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Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover,…
— Nesta Helen Webster
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The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes…
— Yukio Mishima
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I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my…
— Susan B. Anthony
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I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have…
— Hal Elrod
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The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
— Albert J. Nock
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PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the…
— Neltje Blanchan
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Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of…
— Charles Brent
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Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until…
— Emma Goldman
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?
— Andre Gide
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A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes…
— Dean Koontz
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
— Alan Watts
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How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public…
— Oscar Wilde
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Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle…
— George Orwell
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She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
— Edith Wharton
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