Quotes About Determination

A lock isn't going to stop us. Not when we've come all this way.

Sunny Baudelaire

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do, and the only thing I could think of was finding out what was going on in this town.

Lemony Snicket

In this way, the story of the Baudelaire orphans is like an onion, and if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery layer in A Series of Unfortunate Events, your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes.

He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and

turn into a literal one.

brought bone after bone to a skeleton expert until she told me that I was making her so miserable that I should never return

People have done difficult things for more or less noble reasons.

I don't know if we have everything necessary to be victorious over cruelty and chaos," I said. She looked up from her typewriter and tilted her hat at me. "What is necessary?" "Cruelty and chaos," I said, and stood up.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution even it it's right in front of your nose.

Siete pronte? » domandò alla fine Klaus. « No » rispose Sunny. « Neanch'io » disse Violet, « ma se aspettiamo di essere pronti aspetteremo tutta la vita. Andiamo ».

The moral of the story is that if you tell yourself you can do something, then you can actually do it, a moral easily disproved if you tell yourself that you can eat nine pints of ice cream in a single sitting, or that you can shipwreck yourself on a distant island simply by setting off in a rented canoe with holes sawed in it.

We're all afraid...We were afraid when we met Captain Sham in the grocery store. We were afraid when we thought that you had jumped out the window. We were afraid to give ourselves allergic reactions, and we were afraid to steal a sailboat and we were afraid to make our way across this lake in the middle of a hurricane. But that didn't stop us.

Prem!" Sunny said

Lemony Snicket

Frank or Ernest

I swung back and forth like a ship in a storm, with the clouds swirling over me like the sea. The sky was still there. No one had drained it away.

Lemony Snicket

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Lenore Coffee