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Quotes About Perseverance

Russian maxim, "You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Even if you bar my way, even if you stare me in the face, I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: —it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
The price, after all, for not having died already goes up not in leaps but step by step, and he would pay that price, too.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Funny little thing. How could she know that even despair can work for you if you're lucky enough to outlive it.   I'd
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
A ja nie wiem i nie wiem i trzymam si? tego jak zbawiennej por?czy.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
You're still a young man/woman. It's not too late to learn hw to unwind. Who said you have to take it on the chin?
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time.
~ Unknown
It was too late to retreat - the world exists only because it is always too late to retreat.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Alf Todd, said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.
~ Wodehouse
Gott schläft, und wir leben weiter.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
Look for another bed if yours is occupied. I don't want the miserable little bit of your life. You're just not enough for me, my boy. First, you have to live. Kick ass, and let yourself be ass-kicked. One day, when you're totally drunk, up to the top, when you're paralyzed, struggling to move and lying in the mud, then we can talk again. But for now, get real, ok? And now your clear the premises, my darling boy. Your little handful of life is not fucking enough. Keep it. I don't want it.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
Schrei nicht los, wenn du eine halbe Stunde im Nebel stehst, nachts,einsam. Du triffst immer wieder auf die andern. Komm, Junge, werd nicht müde! Hör nicht hin auf die sentimentale Klimperei des süßen Xylophonspielers, hör nicht hin.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.
~ Woody Allen
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.
~ Woody Allen
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
~ Woody Allen
Ninety percent of success in life is just showing up.
~ Woody Allen
Showing up is 80% of life.
~ Woody Allen
80% of life is showing up.
~ Woody Allen
Los personajes femeninos de Lovborg: una evaluación DORF: Oh, Netta. ¡Todo está perdido! ¡Perdido! NETTA: Para un hombre pusilánime, tal vez, pero no para un hombre que tenga...valor.
~ Woody Allen
Justo castigo La vida es un auténtico caos, pensé. Los sentimientos resultan tan imprevisibles. ¿Cómo es posible que alguien soporte permanecer casado durante cuarenta años? Parece un milagro mayor que el paso del mar Rojo, aunque mi padre, en su ingenuidad, sostenga que es esto último un logro de mayor envergadura.
~ Woody Allen
Don't look back, Satchel Paige said, something may be gaining on you.
~ Woody Allen
You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, ... He would have pointed to you and said, Y'know, I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these.
~ Unknown
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
~ Woody Guthrie