Quotes About Persistent

Whatever Blithe wanted, she wanted absolutely and immediately. There was no budging Blithe.

Steve Jobs was famously stubborn and

It was impossible to tame, like leeches.

incorrigible

I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

The druidical claims for Stonehenge seem to belong to that bonkers-but-persistent strand of Englishness that believes there is something particularly mystical about the English themselves, who were clearly a chosen people.

Chael is a pretty tough and strategic opponent and very hard to put down.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."—John F. Kennedy

I guess I would use one word to describe myself: determined.

Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.

the dark as it hit late afternoon thick like someone who stops by your place and just won't leave.

Good leadership is pervasive persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

Guilt, Ameline discovered, was a terrible, unruly think, like toothache - dull nagging, persistent, never far from attention. Just when you got used to its rumbling, ruminating presence, it would lash out, stike you down, stio you dead in your tracks. The worst thing was, it was entirely unpredicatable.

The actor in with them was Graham Huxtable. He was putting on a felonious one-man performance of Twelfth Night. Persistent offender. He'll be fined and bound over. His Malvolio is truly frightful.

She is like a mathematical equation, always there and impossible to disprove.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

But this new fear was like termites in her skull, much more constant and present and squirming through all of her thoughts.

By steady, persistent steps the sense of security departed from Roman Britain. Its citizens felt by daily experience a sense that the world-wide system of which they formed a partner province was in decline. They entered a period of alarm.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.