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Quotes About Determination

shoved Target One away and smashed an elbow into Target Two's face. I tore the energy weapon out of Target Two's hand along with a few fingers, stabbed the weapon into its chest (it didn't have a sharp end but I made do) and ripped a large hole.
~ Martha Wells
TargetControlSystem hit me with everything it had. It told me I would never take the ship. I told it. "Okay you keep the ship. I'll take the planet.
~ Martha Wells
They don't want anything to come between them and their goal. They have their ideas, they don't want facts to bother them.
~ Martha Wells
CodeBundle.FuckThisToo
~ Martha Wells
While being eaten would end all his problems, he wasn't quite ready for so final a solution.
~ Martha Wells
I don't need rest, I'm fueled by spite.
~ Martha Wells
I don't know if I can do what you want me to do, Bashasa. If I can stay calm and always think ahead, like you do. I'm so angry I could burn the world." Bashasa didn't seem concerned. "Unfortunately, someone else has already burned it. We need to unburn it." He looked up, his expression serious. "Will you help me do that, Kai?" Kai had already made that decision. "Yes.
~ Martha Wells
Then she frowned at Khat, realizing what he had said. "If we jump? No one's jumping. Don't say that. We'll have to climb to get back.
~ Martha Wells
I don't make threats, I'm just telling you what I'm going to do.
~ Martha Wells
The only way out of this was to kill them.
~ Martha Wells
Unless ART had decided to murder everybody in which case shit was going to get real.
~ Martha Wells
Nothing could stop you. Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the ocean rocking. You went on with your dying. —
~ Unknown
Agnes Tattle was the only person he'd ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit. It must be the mathematics in her background. Such courageous realism certainly didn't come from the study of English literature.
~ Unknown
one bicycle, but even if we'd had another, I think
~ Unknown
Einstein said later in life, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
~ Unknown
and the attached
~ Unknown
Anything is possible where faith is concerned.
~ Unknown
If you cannot get across it, you must get across it, nevertheless.
~ Martin Buber
Even if you cannot achieve much in the way of fitness, every little [bit] helps. The other guy might be getting tired too. If he has five seconds' worth of fight left in him and you have 10, you will win.
~ Unknown
Martin Dugard
~ Unknown
Just the hill and me. Just the challenge and me. Just my fears an me. Bring it on.
~ Unknown
Don't you worry Stella, we'll get to the bottom of this, you know we will.  We are the best there is in investigative journalism'. 'Yes you're right, we are'.  Stella
~ Unknown
Even the most political poem is an act of faith.
~ Martín Espada
At the lowest level of explanation, therefore, people are said to perform a behavior because they intend to do so, they have the requisite skills and abilities, and there are no environmental constraints to prevent them from carrying out their intentions (i.e., they have favorable intentions and actual behavioral control).
~ Unknown