Pertinacity Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I am not a thing. I am not your possession. I am a human being."
- CBI Agent Sam Rose — Liana Brooks

As a child, Richard had had nightmares in which he simply wasn't there, in which, no matter how much noise he made, no matter what he did, nobody ever noticed him at all. — Neil Gaiman

Google has a strong focus on technology, and it serves them well. My experience there was that they ordered technology first and people second. I believe the opposite. It isn't all about how many servers you have or how sophisticated your software is. Those things matter. But what really makes a technology meaningful - to its users and its employees - is how people come to use it to effect change in the world. I don't mean to throw Google under the bus. Obviously they're brilliant. It's just that my priorities are flipped. People come before technology. — Biz Stone

Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could not bear it. I think she woke, and dressed, and washed her face in cold water, and rubbed her shaven head. I think she walked among her sisters, and for the first time saw that they were so beautiful, and she loved them. I think she woke up one morning of all her mornings, and found that her heart was as white as a silkworm, and the sun was clear as glass on her brow, and she believed then that she could live, and hold peace in her hand like a pearl. — Catherynne M Valente

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages. — Peter Farb

I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless. — Leon Uris

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. — George Eliot

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in. — Vanessa Carlton

Bella. You were always my soul. — Lora Leigh

People believe what they are told. — Jacqueline Carey

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People do write books. — Kevin Pietersen

I am the Fiercest of the Fierce. — Lois Lowry