Quotes About Persistence

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

After you fail, which I have, you can either choose to crumble and retreat and become nonfunctional, which I've seen happen, or you can just become a lone wolf, forget about the cool kids and just continue to do your own thing.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop. The line from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland drifted through my mind, and I smiled. Good advice, I supposed – but only if you happened to know where the beginning was, and I didn't quite.

Does it ever stop, Claire? The wanting?

He was pressing himself against the wall as though trying to get through it by osmosis.

He still didn't know why the frog hadn't killed him.

The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination. Rain

That's how ye do it,' his brother Ian had told him... 'Ye find a way to live for that one more minute. And then another. And another... But after a time, ye find ye're in a different place than ye were. A different person than ye were. And then ye look about and see what's there with ye. Ye'll maybe find a use for yourself. That helps.

Weel, lass, d'ye mean us to stand here until we're melted away like sugar in a dish o' tea?

I—yes. All right.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's the always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful—because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed.

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EVEN WHEN THE world ends, things bloody go on happening. You just don't know what to do about them.

remained on hands and knees, eyes narrowed thoughtfully

again, yet from that minute that that occasion

I auditioned for 'Crazy Rich Asians' four times and it was very, very hard for me to not get it, because it was like, these 'Crazy Rich Asians' people were the cool kids and I was the one being left out.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.

I had to know that for me to be successful in all aspects of my life, I have to work.

I think people can't believe I can still walk and talk and get on the stage without assistance.

I want to play as much as I can, many years in this great association.

When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.