Quotes About Persistent

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie --- deliberate, contrived and dishonest --- but the myth --- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic . - John Kennedy

You're stubborn, Vlad." "Is that a compliment?

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.

Hermann Boerhaave still defined melancholia as merely a long persistent delirium without fever, during which the sufferer is obsessed by only one thought.

and had a face like a bulldog licking vinegar off a thistle...

I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.

I'm just kind of a hard-nosed, don't say a lot and go to work kind of guy.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

You've got to be the most knowledgeable, and you've got to be competitive.

You are so stubborn." "I am? I? Woman who insists everything be her way? You must wear hard white shoes. You must remove your weapons. You must travel in a car. You must not kiss me even though I wrap my legs around you when you do. Must must must. I weary of that word.

The worthy ones, the secrets of consequence, swallow up the tongues of the living until they sleep together in the grave. Unseen forces, nevertheless they twist and mold unsuspecting lives, bruise and batter bewildered souls. Omerta -- what happens in the "family" stays in the family. Powerful, percolating, persistent, these insidious secrets are the ones I fear.

The wrong view of science betrays itself in the craving to be right; for it is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.

I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.

The favorable break came through Carnegie, but what about the determination, definiteness of purpose, and the desire to attain the goal, and the persistent effort of twenty-five years? It was no ordinary desire that survived disappointment, discouragement, temporary defeat, criticism, and the constant reminding of "waste of time." It was a burning desire! An obsession!

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

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.

He missed his venerable master, who had marked him forever with a thirst for knowledge as persistent as the drunk's thirst for alcohol or the ambitious man's thirst for power. He no longer had his mentor's library or his inexhaustible fount of experience.

I'm a real pussycat-with an iron tail.