Quotes About Persistence

The uncle lit up and blew smoke in a thin blue viper's breath toward the window. It coiled and diffused in the yellow light. He smiled. I'd like to have a dollar for every time I quit, he said.

He looked at her. After a while he said: It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You don't start over. That's what it's about. Ever step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

There's a kind of man that when he cant have what he wants he wont take the next best thing but the worst he can find.

There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.

Are you real brave? Just medium. What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

Cum suna chestia aia...? Cu adevarul si dreptatea? - Ne dedicam trup si suflet in fiecare zi. Ceva de genul asta. - Eu cred ca o sa-ncep de-acum sa ma dedic de doua ori pe zi. Si as putea ajunge si la trei, pina se termina. Ne vedem miine dimineata.

He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away forever and be dead among his kind

Tus ideas sobre empezar de nuevo. O las de otro. No se empieza de nuevo. Ese es el quid. Cada paso que das es para siempre. No puedes eliminarlo. ¿Entiendes lo que te digo?

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves. No matter even if it kills him? I think so. Yes. No matter what.

Every step you take is forever

Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?

The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway.

Elindekinden vazgeçmemek her zaman iyi olmayabilir. Ama her zaman kötü de deÄŸildir.

I ain't ahead by a damn sight. I never will be.

Entienda que ya existe este ogro. Este chupador de ojos. Él y otros como él. Ellos no han desaparecido del mundo. Y nunca lo harán.

He never sleeps. He says that he will never die.

I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.

Borman looked around. Somewhere out here the last ivorybill died. Thirty years ago probably. I still listen for them. What sense does that make? They're gone forever. I didnt know you were a bird watcher. I'm not. I'm a forever watcher. Forever is a long time.

Man dont always catch what he fishes for.

The work of an instant. The work of a lifetime.

You think that when there's somethin that's got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It's waitin for you. It always will be.

You think that when there's somethin that's got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It's waitin for you. It always will be.

You're just trying to keep alive long enough to stay that way.

The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict; the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division.