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Quotes About Determination

Don't interrupt a man when he's giving himself hell.
~ Elmore Leonard
Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. "You'd shoot me, you get the chance?" "You make me pull," Raylan said, "I'll put you down.
~ Elmore Leonard
Raylan got ready.
~ Elmore Leonard
That was the essence of the good feeling: to be able to remain calm and relax while he was keyed up and confident. Never panic. Never run. Face whatever had to be faced. Be practical, reasonable, up to a point. And if reason doesn't work, get up and kick it in the teeth. Whatever the problem is.
~ Elmore Leonard
but he knew by the way the man was looking at him his words had been wasted. "I'm going up the mountain," Tanner said.
~ Elmore Leonard
I want you to understand," Raylan said, "I don't pull my sidearm 'less I'm gonna shoot to kill. That's its purpose, huh, to kill. So it's how I use it.
~ Elmore Leonard
Clement said it was like conditioning, prepar-ing for the ball-clutching moments of life while building your sphincter muscle. After lying in front of a freight train you can lie in bed in your underwear while two cops are visiting, asking about a certain black Buick—and while a mean-looking Walther P.38 automatic is hidden nearby at that very moment—and not worry about making doo-doo in the bed.
~ Elmore Leonard
You're pretty sure we're going to Yuma.
~ Elmore Leonard
If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.
~ Eloisa James
One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.
~ Eloisa James
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
~ Emil Cioran
If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
~ Émile Zola
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
~ Émile Zola
Ne doutez pas de moi, laissez-moi la force de me vaincre.
~ Émile Zola
Now we need something else...and I should be the one person to be reckoned with! (37)
~ Émile Zola
Ey adalet, ne korkunç bir umutsuzlukla s?k?l?yor insan?n yüreÄŸi!
~ Émile Zola
The ground was shaking beneath their feet and they clung to the resolutions they had made in calmer moments, to avoid plunging into the abyss.
~ Émile Zola
Et il est capable de s'écraser le cÅ"ur comme on écrase une puce.
~ Émile Zola
no le había quedado más remedio que hacerse una confesión: aún temblaba al ver pasar a Mouret, pero ahora sabía que no era de miedo.
~ Émile Zola
Elle était là, patiente, seule, redoutable dans sa douceur. There she was, patiently waiting, alone, formidable in her gentleness.
~ Émile Zola
If the survivor is blessed with strength and some modicum of insight, then he or she may find the courage to keep moving through the bad times.
~ Emilie Richards
Because even one small island of success in a river of failure is worth whatever we have to do to achieve it.
~ Emilie Richards
But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.
~ Emily Bronte
Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!
~ Emily Bronte