Perseistence Quotes & Sayings

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. — Abraham Lincoln

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well. — Annie Lennox

One insurance executive I worked with described the major benefit he derived from implementation of this system: "Previously I would just tell everyone, 'Sure, I'll do it,' because I didn't know how much I really had to do. Now that I've got the inventory clear and complete, just to maintain my integrity, I have had to say, 'No, I can't do that, I'm sorry.' The amazing thing is that instead of being upset with my refusal, everyone was impressed with my discipline! — David Allen

Life can be simple, it ain't easy. So don't take the easy option. Challenge the resistance, challenge yourself, become great — Tony Curl

The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the dehistoricized a sense of identity and possibility. Such 'medicinal' histories seek to re-establish the connections between peoples and their histories, to reveal the mechanisms of power, the steps by which their current condition of oppression was achieved through a series of decisions made by real people to dispossess them; but also to reveal the multiplicity, creativity and perseistence of resistance among the oppressed. — Aurora Levins Morales

It's not for us to choose our times, Jacob. But we must be ready when they come. — Joel C. Rosenberg

This all feels so familiar. Jackson said a lot of these things to me the first time I got pulled. I didn't understand any of it then. I didn't understand him. But now I do. He'll tell each of us to be selfish, to watch our own backs and no one else's, but he'll be wholly unselfish, watching out for all of us, expecting no one to watch out for him. — Eve Silver

To the sheepfold! — Jules Verne

Don't evaluate yourself, don't evaluate others. Just keep going after it. — Mike Bickle

Mathilde returned and strolled past the drawing-room windows; she saw him busily engaged in describing to Madame de Fervaques the old ruined castles that crown the steep banks of the Rhine and give them so distinctive a character. He was beginning to acquit himself none too badly in the use of the sentimental and picturesque language which is called wit in certain drawing-rooms. — Stendhal

I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to music - except maybe when I find myself oddly alone in a quiet room with only a typewriter to strum on and a yen to write a song. Who knows why? Maybe I just feel like singing - so I type.
These quick electric keys are my Instrument, my harp, my RCA glass-tube microphone, and my fine soprano saxophone all at once. That is my music, for good or ill, and on some nights it will make me feel like a god. Veni, Vidi, Vici ... That is when the fun starts ... — Hunter S. Thompson

- O, to tell you the truth, retorted Gabriel suddenly, I'm sick of my own country, sick of it! — James Joyce

Willow Mosby, when I look at you, all of the broken pieces fit back together. — Courtney Nuckels

What can I say?" I grinned. I have a magic touch when it comes to animals."
Daphne snorted. "You're touched in the head is more like it. — Jennifer Estep

You can choose to become an engineer, a teacher, a journalist or to pursue any other kind of profession. But when God calls you, you do not know what He has called you to do or what ministry he has in mind for you — Sunday Adelaja