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Quotes About Persistence

Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it." Diane's mantra.
~ Gillian Flynn
Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it.
~ Gillian Flynn
El sueño es como el gato: sólo viene a ti si lo ignoras..
~ Gillian Flynn
I'd go out each morning and beg for six hours. I knew who to approach and for how long and exactly what to say. I was never ashamed. What I did was purely transactional: You made someone feel good and they gave you money.
~ Gillian Flynn
Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.
~ Gillian Flynn
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I
~ Gillian Flynn
Just got to keep on keeping on.
~ Gillian Flynn
He had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.
~ Gillian Flynn
Porque no se puede estar tan enamorados como lo estuvimos nosotros sin que ese amor te invada hasta el tuétano. Nuestro amor puede entrar en remisión, pero siempre sigue ahí, esperando para regresar. Como el cáncer más dulce del mundo.
~ Gillian Flynn
Fake it, until you make it ..
~ Gillian Flynn
never entirely erased the stink, though—she must have one rank pussy)
~ Gillian Flynn
I've got to get him out of my head—he still steps on my lines from a hundred miles away.)
~ Gillian Flynn
Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.
~ Gillian Flynn
She followed obligingly, and I kept waiting for those knicks at my heels.
~ Gillian Flynn
Jeez, wait, don't get bent out of shape." But I was born bent out of shape. I could picture myself coming out of the womb crooked and wrong. It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue. I
~ Gillian Flynn
gnawing on a cuticle: You know you should stop, that it doesn't really feel as good as you think, but you can't quit grinding away.
~ Gillian Flynn
That easy, huh?" "You just have to decide to do it and then do it," she said. "Discipline. Follow through. Like anything.
~ Gillian Flynn
mosquitoing around me, peppering me with pointless questions
~ Gillian Flynn
see a 3 and an 8. (He said.) And then work
~ Gillian Flynn
I see birthdays as a reward for having shown up 365 in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.
~ Gina Barreca
I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them come true.
~ Glen Cook
If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist? That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
~ Glen Cook
Glen Johnson
~ composition
Where's Amy? Ian put in. Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either the most mule-headed person who ever lived, or he really likes your sister. She has to have mercy on him–on all of us!
~ Gordon Korman