Quotes About Persistence

Normally I miss deadlines like a storm trooper misses Jedi.

I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half (of my mind) where I'd hidden it only to find out I hadn't hidden it at all. I'd merely been waiting to see how ling I'd look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused at yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling to say the least.

Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then.

Admit me for more than two jots and I will not be able to attend. Admit me for less and I will be here every day, while every night I will do what it takes to stay alive while I study here. I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. I will do whatever it takes." I said the last words fiercely, almost snarling them.

The World needs people like you. . . . You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature. . . . Something bothers you, . . . and suddenly you're off. 'I'm not always so terribly sure of myself,' I admitted. Simmon smiled. 'I find that strangely reassuring.

I stayed because there was no other place I could learn what I desired. Mere whipping could not keep me away from it." There are things I desire to learn, and I can only learn them here." I handed her the hard, dark piece of wood. "If you want me to leave, you must do worse than welts.

Keys were hardly known for their complacency,

Cuando quieres algo, tienes que asegurarte de que eso te quiere a ti, porque si no, pasarás muchos apuros persiguiéndolo.

Believe it with a faith that will move mountains and shake trees.

Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.

When all the world was palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome.

Me di la vuelta, mientras se me pintaba una sonrisa en la cara. Siempre me pasaba lo mismo: solo la encontraba cuando había abandonado toda esperanza

How could I even begin? I would have more luck trying to steal the moon.

old habits die slow deaths.

Cuando el mundo entero se convertía en un palimpsesto, él se convertía en un palíndromo perfecto.

Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.

I had watched a hundred men dash themselves to pieces against Denna like ships attempting to ignore the tide.

We're being followed," I said, not bothering to whisper it. They were at least seventy feet behind us,

I'd seen Simmon pursue nearly every woman within three miles of the University with the doomed enthusiasm of a child trying to fly.

Keys were hardly known for their complacency, and this one was near howling for a lock.

She rolled her eyes, exasperated. "I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

But at the end of the day,

I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him. The harder the question, the harder we hunt. The harder we hunt, the more we learn. An impossible question