Good Persisting Quotes & Sayings

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent. — Chris Abani

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits. — Cher

Physical weather certainly is beyond our control ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control. The human race is its own rain and its own sun. It creates its own cyclones and anti-cyclones. The ridges of high pressure which we sometimes enjoy, the troughs of low pressure which we so often endure, are of our own making and nobody else's. — Jan Struther

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature. — Stephen Rea

Honestly I try to stay away from what has been written about me because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true, it can drive you crazy. — Taylor Lautner

It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility. — Zhang Xin

Ask questions if you really want to know the answers. — Lexi Ainsworth

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin

This is why cops shoot people in the back, I thought. They can't keep up. Then — Kent Walker

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen. — Carl Sagan

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television. — Donald Trump

It is has been a long time since I have written one of my statuses about life. I have been very busy trying to promote my Fan page, Friends and services, and my books. However, I can tell you all one thing for certain. I am not a Quitter. I will not stop writing books. I will not stop pushing myself to succeed. I will not stop being who I am.
I am a winner. Winning is an attitude. You take the good with the bad and you keep on going. It gets hard, you get tired and sometimes burnt out but you keep on going anyway, because you can.
Winners have setbacks, but winners learn tighten their belts and go on. Winner look at what has gone wrong and instead of complaining they find ways of doing it better. Winners know that Rome was not built in a day and take every day as it comes.
Winners do not whine, they roar. — Alexander Stone

Self- Perception blossoms only in pure hearts! We have to first win our internal enemies. These are the enemies who damage the strong layer of conscience. — Rajasaraswathii

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions. — Armando Iannucci

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid. — Ice Cube