Quotes About Persistence

she'd have been gnawing her way through his bedroom walls to sink her avid fingers into his youthful flesh.

After we're gone the work of our knives will survive us.

How did she end up in this madhouse? By putting one foot in front of the other and never taking her eyes off her feet. You could end up anywhere that way.

Matter of fact, you would, says Zeb. Heart like shale. What you need is a good fracking.

Hacer caso omiso no es lo mismo que ignorar, hay que esforzarse para ello.

The circumstances have been reduced; for those of us who still have circumstances.

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled.

It was still with them, the century-old futility of trying to protect what was theirs while watching it being taken away. It clung to her people like a stain that couldn't be removed.

miles per hour, eighty-five, and still the sedan stayed behind

Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

as he huffed across the rocky edge.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.

She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route...

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, The dogs bark but the caravan passes on? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do? What is there that matters? Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day!

You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.

stick-in-themuddish

What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes on'? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.