Persisters Quotes & Sayings

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip. — Phyllis Diller

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. — Andrew Carnegie

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s. — Eric Andre

He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole cut out of the landscape. — Amanda DeWees

Notice I did not say what people can do
what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be. — Max DePree

A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

There are two types of people-anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere and they're having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down. — Robert Wyland

Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new. — Michel De Montaigne

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

A journey to try is not worthy to start, better to love none than starting over in relationships and getting dropped like a coin that won't get tossed. — Auliq Ice

If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion. — Jonathan Dee

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse:
Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts. — Pusha T

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. — A. C. Benson