Quotes About Persistence

Really good anything takes timing.

He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, doth but half his work, Gal. vi. 9; Heb. xii. 1; 2 Cor. vii. 1.

sin is always acting, always conceiving, always seducing and tempting.

There is not a day in our lives in which sin does not either defeat us or is defeated, prevails over us or is prevailed over, and it will be like this as long as we live in this world.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

Keep moving forward until we find something better to do, Hinchcliffe replied. Maybe find the nursery for the dog-demons. I'd rather kill them stillborn. I didn't know you were a Democrat, Staff Sergeant, Berg said with a grin. Don't ask, don't tell, Two-Gun.

If there is a will there is an A.

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses

If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

Scratching their nails on the blackboard of futility.

I mean, the guy could fall in a barrel of titties and come out suckin' his thumb.

VIRGIL HAD BEEN WORKING the telephone from his truck

Scratching their fingernails on blackboards of futility.

This could be handled. Everything can be handled by he who waits.

don't have them all, yet.

Take a while to find all that out, but I won't lose any

in Yiddish or Hebrew-Russian-English or whatever: the word's nudnik. The best definition I've ever heard came from an Israeli professor of archaeology: "It's a person who is like a woodpecker sitting on your head, all the time pecking you.

The most powerful aspect of any bureaucracy, in Kidd's eyes, was the same thing that gave cancer its power: it was immortal. If you didn't seek it out and kill it, cell by cell, it'd just keep growing. Bureaucracies could chase you forever. You could defeat them over and over and over again, and the bureaucracy didn't much care, though some individual bureaucrats might. The bureaucracy, as a whole, just kept coming, as long as the funding lasted.

you'll get back to your trucks. Some of those people, you

John Sandford

John Sandford

doing this for a long time, honey. I'd be

the guy could fall in a barrel of titties and come out suckin' his thumb.