Perseverance By Famous People Quotes & Sayings

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up. — Lou Reed

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. — Wangari Maathai

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue. — Jen Pollock Michel

Breaking and entering was an essential part of the shapeshifter courtship. — Ilona Andrews

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. — Malcolm Gladwell

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. — William Shakespeare

Okay, well, if motion is the constant, how can I remain in motion? — Baratunde Thurston

The law is an ass, an idiot. — Charles Dickens

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed. — Agatha Christie

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use. — Pope John Paul II

Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss ... while objectionable to many women, [it] is not a coercive action. It is rather part of a package deal in which the secretary agrees to all aspects of the job when she agrees to accept the job, and especially when she agrees to keep the job. The office is, after all, private property. The secretary does not have to remain if the 'coercion' is objectionable. — Walter Block

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith. — Jon Stewart

The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either. — Swami Vivekananda

War is a specific product of civilization. — Lewis Mumford