Persists Quotes

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. — Sydney J. Harris
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility… — Thomas Merton
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in… — George Orwell
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists. — Eric Ries
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's… — Stephen Sondheim
What you resist, persists — Neale Donald Walsch
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… — Atul Gawande
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. — Eckhart Tolle
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing… — Alexander Lowen
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and… — Thomas Merton
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young. — Glenway Wescott
Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.â€ - Carter to Georgina — Richelle Mead
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder… — Milan Kundera
Forgiveness is healingâ€”everything is energyâ€”thoughts createâ€”we are all connectedâ€”what you resist persistsâ€”true love never diesâ€”the soulâ€™s immortality is the only true immortalityâ€” — Alyson Noel
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists… — Judith Lewis Herman
When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move… — Paulo Coelho
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to… — Margaret George
Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in… — Cassandra Clare
Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something… — Grant Morrison
If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a… — Rabindranath Tagore

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