Quotes About Persistence

He was, Sadler thought glumly, rather in the position of a man in a darkened coal cellar, looking for a black cat that might not be there. What was worse, to make the analogy more accurate he would have to be a man who didn't know what a cat looked like, even when he saw one.

mystery was piling upon mystery, and that for all his efforts he was getting further and further from any understanding of the truths he sought.

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

I've come a billion miles - I don't want to be stopped by the last sixty

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile. It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time.

Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it.

The work is its own reward

How long is this to last? asked the inspector finally. And what is it we are watching for? I have no more notion than you how long it is to last, Holmes answered with some asperity. If criminals would always schedule their movements like railway trains, it would certainly be more convenient for all of us.

I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

Holmes: I followed you. Sterndale: I saw no one. Holmes: That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile.

genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

You then went to the vicarage, waited outside it for some time, and finally returned to your cottage." "How do you know that?" "I followed you." "I saw no one." "That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

If they are too many for us, we shall take two or three of them with us.

I'm afraid, said Holmes, smiling, that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man. It is crushing the nut with the triphammer--an absurd extravagance of energy--but the nut is very effectually crushed all the same.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

A man in white clothes (…) was running as one does run when Death is the pacemaker.

Time had a grudge against her.' – Evalle

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