Quotes About Persistence

Alcott Louisa May 1832-1888

The more stitches, the less riches.

I think of you so incessantly, so insistently. The thought of you is always there. It lies hidden, a latency, in the most unlikely things and places, ready at the command of some chance association to jump out at me from its ambush.

The forms change, but the substance remains.

El cuerpo social persiste aunque sus células cambien.

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfillment?

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fufilment?

I don't understand anything,' she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact.

She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself through thee.

Treba da budem ?ovjek! Pošto sam naviknut na nevolje, ne treba da dopustim da me obeshrabri jedno razo?arenje; ina?e bi zna?ilo da sam patio uzalud. Srce prepukne kad se prvo rašiti prekomjerno od tople nade, pa se zatim povu?e i zatvori u hladnu stvarnost.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

Torneranno. È sempre difficile resistere alla tentazione di tornare, non è vero?

Signore Buon Dio abbiate pazienza son di nuovo io.

Si muoveva come raccogliendo ogni volta pezzi di se stessa che non erano destinati a rimanere insieme. Il suo corpo sembrava il risultato di uno sforzo di volontà.

No se puede apagar el mar, cuando arde en la noche.

Non c'è più tempo per fuggire e forza per resistere

Sono qui perché se mi arrendo questa volta mi arrenderò tutta la vita.

Esta misteriosa circunstancia de que las cosas de nuestro pasado sigan existiendo incluso cuando salen del radio de acción de nuestras vidas y que es más, maduran, trayendo frutos nuevos en cada estación, para una recolección de la que nosotros ya no sabemos nada más. La persistencia ilógica de la vida.

Je voulais dire que la vie, je la veux, je ferai n'importe quoi pour l'avoir, toute la vie possible, même si je deviens folle, peu importe, je deviendrai folle tant pis mais la vie je ne veux pas la rater, je la veux, vraiment, même si ça devait faire mal à en mourir c'est vivre que je veux.

You can't sow without plowing first. First you have to break up the earth.

C'erano un sacco di altre cose di cui non si doveva più occupare. Era come uno di quei cavalli che, scosso il fantino, tornano indietro, svagati, al piccolo trotto, mentre gli altri sono ancora a farsi scoppiare il cuore inseguendo un traguardo e un qualsiasi ordine d'arrivo.

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer.

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage until he finds you.