Quotes About Perseverance

At this rate, the only way she was going to get laid was to crawl up a chicken's ass and wait.

Angie always came back.

things. You just needed math.

Karin Slaughter

You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special

Press evenly," the praying mantis said, chewing off the wings of a fly.

There are good days and bad days, and as long as there aren't too many of either, you get along with your life fine.

For some reason, he still felt (the same), like (incident) had happened to another (name), his mind going there while his body stayed on the outside, not aging, waiting for him to come back and claim it.

the luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the death of a husband, the loss of two children, and countless other hardships. Claire

sick of floating between disaster points like an amoeba inside a petri dish.

She would tell you she gave in to mourning you for too long, let the pity and self-hate drag her into that black pit that I still crawl around in. If she did, her stay there was temporary. Somehow, she managed to wrench a piece of her former self out of the ground. She tells me that the other, miserable half, the chipped-off, cast-off half, still follows at a respectful distance, ready to take over the second she stumbles.

Kids like that didn't live the lives they wanted. They survived the lives they had.

She had the rest of her life to think about hoe lonely she was. What she needed to do right now was get trough today. Or at least the next hour.

Andrea had nothing left to dig. She knew her stomach would probably shit out of her throat if she pushed herself any harder.

The most expensive thing she had ever put on her face was a New York strip after a perp had punched her in the eye.

There is not other relation to God save that which appears upon the road along which Job travelled.

Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti.

Non c'è via maestra per la scienza, e solo hanno una probabilità di raggiungerne le vette luminose coloro che non temono di affaticarsi a salirne i ripidi sentieri.

Life is struggle.

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. Unless it's polio.