Quotes About Persistence

Rincewind trudged back up the beach. The trouble is, he said, is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so.

Against one perfect moment, the centuries beat in vain.

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called The Valley Full of Clouds. Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

Anything could make Wentworth sticky. Washed and dried and left in the middle of a clean floor for five minutes, Wentworth would be sticky. It didn't seem to come from anywhere. He just got sticky.

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.

Well, I think, said Nobby, that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for on a cold night wonderin' about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.

Tomorrow here is just like yesterday, warmed over.

Seven thousand years is just one day at a time

the world kept turning and the Turtle moved.

Have you heard the saying 'The reward you get for digging holes is a bigger shovel'?

Brutha tried to put it out of his mind, which was like trying to empty a bucket underwater.

No!" Moist's fist thumped the table. "Never say that, Tolliver! Never! Run before you walk! Fly before you crawl! Keep moving forward!

None of these lads here were out getting fighting drunk last night. And thus we wear down mountains. Water dripping on a stone, dissolving and removing. Changing the shape of the world, one drop at a time. Water dripping on a stone, Commander. Water flowing underground, bubbling up in unexpected places.

He'll just track us down and follow us and then he'll kill Carrot! Why? Because Carrot's mine!

it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Anyone with half a mind could see that, said Tiffany. Miss Tick sighed. Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.

For example, it is said that someone at a party once asked the famous philosopher Ly Tin Weedle "Why are you here?" and the reply took three years.

At the end of the world is a great big mountain of granite rock a mile high,' she said. 'And every year, a tiny bird flies all the way to the rock and wipes its beak on it. Well, when the little bird has worn the mountain down to the size of a grain of sand . . . that's the day I'll marry you, Rob Anybody Feegle!

A year went past. The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had all tried passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.

Es una realidad de la vida el hecho de que todos nos encontramos a uno u otro lado de un muro, de modo que la única solución es olvidarse de él o desarrollar unos dedos resistentes.

Let me through. I'm a nosy person.' she said, employing both elbows. It worked, as this sort of approach generally does.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly," said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.

Commander Vimes always says that when life hands you a mess of spaghetti, you just keep pulling until you find a meatball.