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Quotes About Determination

Something she'd gotten from Burton and the Corps, that you didn't do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too.
~ William Gibson
You just had to know how to do it, and when to do it, and most important of all, why to do it. Powerful substance like this, Lowell would explain, it wasn't there just for any casual jack-off recreational urge. It was there to allow you to do things. To empower you, he said, so you could do things and, best of all, finish them.
~ William Gibson
Annie: Maybe you all do. It's my idea of the original sin. James: What is? Annie: Giving up.
~ William Gibson
Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
~ William Golding
As long as there's light we're brave enough
~ William Golding
Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?
~ William Golding
Of course we're frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened.
~ William Golding
It was, perhaps, no situation from which to face a charging badger.
~ William Golding
I only wanted to keep up a fire!
~ William Golding
Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.
~ William Golding
I dunno, Ralph. We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grown-ups would do.
~ William Golding
I'm going up the mountain." The words came from Jack viciously, as though they were a curse.
~ William Golding
The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.
~ William Golding
That was the voice of one who knew his own mind.
~ William Golding
See? Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. Inigo is beaten. Inconceivable! exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. I'm so stupid, Fezzik nodded. Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.
~ William Goldman
Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
~ William Goldman
I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.
~ William Goldman
He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
~ William Goldman
I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that's never going to stop.
~ William Goldman
The only way forward is to never look back.
~ William Goldman
He's gaining on us, the Turk said. That is also inconceivable, the Sicilian said. Before I stole this boat we're in, I made many inquiries as to what was the fastest ship on all of Florin Channel and everyone agreed it was this one. You're right, the Turk agreed, staring back. He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.
~ William Goldman
You always know what to do, you always know exactly what to do, you always do exactly what's right for you, and the rest of the world can go hang..
~ William Goldman
You're right," the Turk agreed, staring back. "He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.
~ William Goldman
Inigo stood still a moment, panting. Then he made a half turn in the direction of Count Rugen and executed a quick and well-formed bow. "Hello," he said. "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
~ William Goldman