Quotes About Persistence

I don't buy that what-comes-can't-be-avoided garbage. Anything can be avoided if you try hard enough.

Obliteration is our hallmark, he said. We don't always succeed, but we try.

You may not be first, you may not be last, but you will cross the finish line.

You are not the first and you will not be the last

unintelligible rumble.

Here is where they send in interrogators to ask her questions. "How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.

Se vuoi qualcosa con tutte le tue forze, prima o poi la ottieni

You can't get in your own head sometimes. You can pace around it, you can bang it against walls, but you can't get inside.

It reminds me that some forces of nature can never be entirely subdued. They are eternal, which is a far better thing to be than immortal.

I wasn't making a mark," Anastasia told her. "I was putting my finger in a dyke. And it's still there.

The problem was that Citra was very bad at doing things half-fast.

for the umpteenth time.

Ele falou de muitas jornadas pelo mundo em busca do Grande Diapasão. — O fato de não o termos encontrado não significa que a busca foi em vão, pois ela é tão valiosa em si mesma quanto o achado.

Starkey's not stopping unwinding, Bam. All he's doing is making sure it never, ever ends!

Any weed dumb enough to grow tall ain't got no chance. It gets decapitated by the next train that comes through.

if one is found just start the rest and u might understand what comes next

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.