Quotes About Persistence

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

The warming springtime of human hope does not give in to the wintry smiles of the cynic and the realist; it blossoms and it perishes in the sad autumnal winds. And then it is born again - for ever and ever.

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

You don't mean to say you're going to abandon your quest for knowledge? I thought you wanted to unravel the enigmas of the world single-handed!

He was not running away, but running onwards.

I will slither from his grasp. I will be like the Caradorean mist. If someone punches me, they will hit only air. I cann't be broken by force. I will bend and twist and float away. If he cuts me with a sword, I will laugh. If he cuts me with words, I will simply shrug. He will laugh at what happens to me at the fire pits and I will smile and shrug. It doesn't matter.

My lady was just a vague shadow further up the road, tireless. I was afraid of losing her, believing that if I paused to rest, she would simply vanish forever.

I want him, Taz. He escaped from me, because I wasn't prepared for what happened at Little Moor. Now, I know what I'm dealing with, and I can handle it. This isn't over until I deliver Shemyaza, alive or dead, to High Crag.

Come back to me, Daniel. I will wait, but I want you back.

She had to reach. She had to want it more than she'd ever wanted anything. She had to grab like a drowning girl for every good thing that came her way and she had to swim like fuck away from every bad thing. She had to count the years and let them roll by, to grow up and then run as far as she could in the direction of her best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by her own desire to heal.

Strickland Gillilan

Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.

If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back and haunt you. I'll make your life a complete misery. No ghost will ever have been as inventive in its nastiness as I'll be: I'll turn your food rancid; I'll transform your drink into blood; I'll howl and moan throughout the night; there'll be no place safe from me. And don't think I couldn't do it, Thirrin, Queen of Icemark, because I can assure you, I could.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

Miracles come after a lot of hard work.

joking that the creaking gate always hangs the longest.

The only way to guarantee failure is to quit.--Sue Cameron

But it could also be willful and unrelenting, pushing memories to the forefront of her brain, like rude people cutting in line. And not just rude, but people who were noisy and smelly and daring you to challenge them.

Impossible? I don't believe in impossible, hard to get maybe, but that makes it all the more interesting.