Quotes About Persistence

That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.

But no matter where I went, what I was running from would still be with me—Kat. She wasn't just back in the house, in that bed. She was with me now, inside me. And there was no outrunning that.

Like me!" I said. "I have to work hard, too. Why, I haven't thrown manure in over two months!

Jennifer L. Holm

It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

Katie nosed at the carpet and then gave it a good chew. When it proved recalcitrant enough that she couldn't pull it up, she growled. "Who's a fierce little girl?" I asked her. "Who's going to kick butt and take names and help her big sister get into all kinds of trouble someday?" Devon snorted. "Sometimes, I think the term bad influence was invented specifically with you in mind.

I came to see you," Jameson told me. "Every day. The least you could have done was wake up while I was here, tragically backlit, unspeakably handsome, and waiting.

I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace.

but if there is one universal truth in the human experience, it is that a finely honed scone-eating palate does not just develop overnight.

Don't think this means I'm giving up. There's more than one way to decapitate a hellhound, and as it so happens, I know them all.

If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was.

You know that just because you ignore something, that doesn't make it go away.

Nothing. You know what that feels like. Reach for it. Grab it. Make it yours.

Michael cut in, "I'll completely ignore it and go next. Best part of my week: I annoyed six out of seven of our instructors. Worst part of my week: the seventh is proving a deceptively hard nut to crack.

You could be happy with three. Three is a good number. But in this life, in this world, three is not enough. You can't stop. You won't. If you don't have their attention yet, you will soon.

Putting pants on a dog was not what one would call "easy". Putting pants on a purebred, hundred-pound Bernese mountain dog who was fairly certain she did not want to wear pants could have substituted for one of the twelve labors of Hercules.

She wasn't going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn't change anything.

How do you go out there, again and again, knowing what you're going to find?" "I tell myself that I don't find bodies," Mac replied evenly. "I find answers. I find lost ones, and I bring them home.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Where there's a will, there's a way. "What do you think the chances are," I said slowly, turning the puzzle over in my mind, "that somewhere, there's a copy of your grandfather's will written in red ink?

Zodra Alisa eenmaal een onderwerp had aangesneden, kreeg je haar ongeveer net zo makkelijk van haar spoor als een hogesnelheidstrein.

Tja, jullie zeiden altijd al dat jullie opa graag tien vliegen in één klap sloeg.