Quotes About Persistence

This wasn't the world of normal people. Yet somehow I kept getting stuck in it.

He'd have to stalk her, he decided. Carefully and patiently.

Cookies aren't gonna cut it. Do you know any lion hunters who bait their traps with cookies?

At the risk of sounding crude, wooing you is like playing basketball with a porcupine. No compliment goes unpunished." "Then stop complimenting.

He seemed to shrug off the sun's rays.

You look like your house burned down," Rene observed. "Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head." "If you're lucky, it's mud.

You like to win." She took a sip from her glass. "And forcing yourself on me would mean you failed in your conquest.

muster and pushed her blond hair away from her face. "Kate, like when will

Nothing is free. If you want it, you have to fight for it.

Now we had two invisible intruders. Because one wasn't hard enough.

Sometimes life just kept punching you in the teeth, no matter how many times you got up.

To lift such a heavy weight, Sisyphus, you will need all your courage. I do not lack the courage to complete the task But the goal is far and time is short.

In living with, rather than relentlessly fighting their cancer, they ultimately live longer.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.

Was this strange mode of life to go on and on?

It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress. It is certainly true, and I think this is an abiding and not a regrettable characteristic of the discipline, that philosophy has in a sense to keep trying to return to the beginning: a thing which it is not at all easy to do.

Sentimentally and in the soul it went on for ages, it still goes on, it goes on and on.

I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely.

He must play the game of survival until the very end.

you want to understand everything sympathetically. It can't be done. One must just blunder on. Truth lies in blundering on.

Living like this is a full-time business.

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.

Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.