Quotes About Persistence

It's harder to come back than it is to arrive.

You'll get him," Sylvia said, pushing conviction into her wish. "We'll get him." Brub believed it. "But how many women will be murdered first?" He tipped up the glass.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Tobie. Unless I'm giving off steam, behave normally. I remember what to do. One foot in front of the other, but not both at the same time unless I'm a robin.

It won't help you," said Scott. "Nothing ever does. That's why I help myself so frequently.

You've chosen a life of vice, and have been consistent and reliable and thorough and successful in carrying it out.

He had survived that. He would survive this.

He is beautiful, and whole, and has learned to offer the world a humble and desperate obedience. You called him a pawn. He has begun to follow his trade.

I am trying to go back. I thought, believe it or not, that nothing could stop me from going back. I was wrong.

It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

I've hated almost everything that ever happened to me, but I knew all the time it was just things that were wrong, not everything. Even when I felt most awful I never thought of killing myself or wanting to die - only of somehow getting out of the mess and starting again.

Don't let the smallest chance slip by; you never know until you try

But even a watched pot cannot absorb heat for ever.

I say, Parker, these are funny cases, ain't they? Every line of inquiry seems to peter out. It's awfully exciting up to a point, you know, and then nothing comes of it. It's like rivers getting lost in the sand.

Whatever you're doing, stop it and do something else! Whatever you're buying, pause and buy something different. Be hectored into health and prosperity! Never let up! Never go to sleep! Never be satisfied. If once you are satisfied, all our wheels will run down.

If I can't make you see the thing in the right perspective this time I'll chuck it for good.

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

But I don't give up; I forget why not.

Women and elephants never forget.

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Ce qu'une femme a fait, une femme peut le refaire. Et continue a imaginer ce qui est devant toi : amis, travail, echanges interessants, rires. Et pourquoi pas une serie d'aventures empreintes d'une certaine noblesse ? il n'est pas impossible qu'on te demande d'entrer dans la danse.