Quotes About Determination

Okay." Mavis nodded decisively. "Then you tear it down. You don't take no for an answer. You nag and you pick and you stick until it pops out of him. Whatever it is. Girls are good at this, Dallas." "I'm not good at being a girl." "Sure you are. You're your own kind of girl. Think of it as kicking his ass until he cracks.

I don't know. I never looked." "Now that hurts." With a laugh, Louise leaned back against the counter. "You don't even bother to look, and you end up with Roarke." "He just got in my way. Couldn't get around him, so I figured I might as well keep him.

If we do, I want to be the bad cop." "You're a lousy bad cop, Feeney. Face it." He gave her a mournful look. "I outrank you, Dallas." "I'm primary, and I'm better at bad cop. Live with it." "I always have to be the good cop," he muttered as they stepped into a well-lighted hallway with more marble, more gilt.

Traffic was a bitch, but, then again, Eve thought, so was she.

But, Christ on a tricycle, Roarke, this is going to be a pain in my ass.

Damn it, Roarke, he's going to come back and poke at me, and try to make me drink one of his weird brews. I just need a hot shower. Let me up. Have a heart." "I do, and it's yours.

I'm not strong." "You're wrong," Eve said as she rose. "You came here, you asked to help someone who needs help. You're no weak sister, Mrs. Patrick, and he can't make you one.

Just Roarke, as far as I know. Big money there. Kind of guy that touches shit and turns it into gold bricks. You've got to start reading more than the sports page, Dallas.

Every case is different, and how we deal with every case is different. But what's the same is we work it, we do the job, and we take the risks the job demands. That's it.

If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you're nothing. I've been nothing. I can't be nothing ever again." "Who

over, shoes just— Hey!" She marched over, picked

She now had a small army of cops to—if they actually found the bastard—take down one man. But she understood the sentiment, and the need. You came for one, you came for all.

And what this small and, yes, treacherous, percentage of all the good men and women who work and risk and fight every single day has done to diminish that work, that risk, that fight, it weighs heavily.

A dog who'd been kicked often enough knew to stay down.

You get through a crisis by doing what needs to be done next.

building again," Eve continued. "Knows how to angle herself to keep her face off camera. We're going to find somebody who saw

And you were going to do that anyway." "I was, yes." He smiled at

She used her master to gain access to the dumpy three-story walk-up, ignored the rickety elevator, and took the stairs to the top floor.

When you want something, you find a way to get it. You wanted me." Reaching over, he danced his fingers over the back of her hand. "And I've got you, don't I?" "Because I wanted you back. I mean, think of the coffee alone. I'd've been a fool to say no.

able to help you out with

with an attitude had

expect he'll be back on his feet in a day or two. I'll be working

Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.

You didn't make lieutenant without wading through, and learning to cut through, the usual crap.