Determination Quote by Neil Gaiman

“she learned about Archimedes’ claim that, given a long enough lever, he could move the planet.”

— Noah Gordon

“Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes”

— Archimedes

“Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth”

— Archimedes

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did…

— Alexandre Dumas

“some place to stand and place a lever, there’s nowhere from which to move the world.”

— Cherie Priest

“he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one…

— Anthony Doerr

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

— Herman Melville

“His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating,…

— Joseph Conrad

“All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly…

— Philip K. Dick

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled…

— Rene Descartes

“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Not only was he the tallest, strongest, most virile, and best built man they had ever seen, but even though they were looking at…

— Gabriel García Márquez