Quotes About Perseverance

Buttercup could picture Westley rounding the final corner. There were four guards outside waiting. At ten seconds per guard, she began figuring, but then stopped, because numbers had always been her enemy. She looked down at her hands. Oh, I hope he still thinks I'm pretty, she thought; those nightmares took a lot out of me.

You're right," the Turk agreed, staring back. "He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.

the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.

With any luck at all," he said, "we should soon be safely in the Fire Swamp.

Why was it worth so much of your life?" "Because I could not fail him again." "Fail who?" "My father.

You just keep thinking, Butch; that's what you're good at.

I must know! Get used to disappointment.

As long as you think you can fight your way out of trouble, you will never be able to fight your way out of trouble.

I could feel almost my heart emptying into my pillow. Iguess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time.

don't come out all that well a lot of the time, but that can't be helped.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

Child; sweet child. I have a knife. I have my sword. I did not come across the world to lose you now. (Westley)

They had been in the Fire Swamp for one hour, and it turned out to be the easiest one they had of the six it took to cross it. But they crossed it. Alive and together. Hand very much in hand.

thereafter, the selfsame

Morgenstern has never given them an easy shot at happiness. This time I sure hope he lets them get there.

No, I don't need sleep. Failures don't need sleep. Anyway, I slept yesterday.

Has it occurred to you that I have gone to great effort and expense, as well as personal sacrifice, to reach this point, the man in black replied. And that if I fail now, I might get very angry. And if she stops breathing in the very near future, it is entirely possible that you will catch the same fatal illness?

The man in black retreated before the slashing of the great sword. He tried to sidestep, tried to parry, tried to somehow escape the doom that was now inevitable. But there was no way. He could block fifty thrusts; the fifty-first flicked through, and now his left arm was bleeding. He could thwart thirty ripostes, but not the thirty-first, and now his shoulder bled. The

En Mongolia perdió a sus padres. —Fezzik, hemos hecho por ti todo lo que hemos podido. Buena suerte —le dijeron, y se murieron.

Non hai pensato che ho sostenuto grandi sforzi e molte spese, e sono incorso in disagi personali, per arrivare fin qui» osservò l'uomo in nero «e se fallisco ora, potrei arrabbiarmi molto? E se lei dovesse smettere di respirare, tu potresti ammalarti della stessa fatale malattia?»

you would never in this world have beaten him. But I tell you this: he would never in this world have beaten you.

Who kills Prince Humperdinck? At the end, somebody's got to get him. Is it Fezzik? Who?' 'Nobody kills him. He lives.' 'You mean he wins, Daddy? Jesus, what did you read me this thing for?

William Goldman

I am all right. I am fine. I am alive, and I will stay that way.