Persistir Insistir Quotes & Sayings

As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn't own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don't own a TV simply means you're poor (or maybe depressed). In one ten-year span, high-end television usurped the cultural positions of film, rock, and literary fiction. — Chuck Klosterman

Even the bravest can fall. — Rick Riordan

Fear dims even the sunlight. — John Howard Griffin

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. — Arnold Joseph Toynbee

The path is a ribbon of moonlight across a dusky sea.
The wind sings a song that beckons us
To that great and mighty tree.
We are the Greenowls of Ambala, clad in raiments of moss,
Sprigged with lichens and grasses
Then gilded with silvery frost.
Fair and square we play- for a sporting lot we are.
We ride the boisterous Balefire gusts
And we reach for every star. — Kathryn Lasky

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. — Sarah Dessen

Was given as a first-world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all. — Nicholas D. Kristof