Quotes About Perseverance

New York City had a short memory for violence

Douglas Preston

some kind of head injury that took him a decade to recover from.

If nobody was going to save her, she was going to save herself.

he was now feeling burnt out to the point of carbonization.

Time is a storm in which we are all lost

I feel like I'm rolling a ball of shit up an endless mountain." "My dear Vincent, Sisyphus would be proud.

So, after half a million, what did the chimps say?" Well, not much, when you really analyze it. That wasn't the point, for God's sake! And the scientists who supported us were afraid to object. They didn't want to attract Proxmire's attention. Cowards, every one.

issued a muffled cry and slashed with the knife, but it rent only

we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held a course

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Wisdom comes only through suffering.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

Do not kick against the pricks.

There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.