Persistent Quotes
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The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.
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Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.
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Now, this meeting would have taken place in mid-to-late 2004, over two years after we started recording, and a lot happened between that summit and the album coming out. One of them was that terrible tsunami in Indonesia on Boxing Day. Because of that, the record company got cold feet on Barney’s cover image, fearing a possible media backlash, and Alan Parkes from Warners had to go to Pete’s studio, pleading with him to do another sleeve. Pete was insistent. ‘No, I don’t want to do one. I don’t want to do it,’ but Alan was just as persistent, until at last Pete got fed up and wrote ‘NO’ on a piece of paper, gave it to Alan and said, ‘There’s my answer,’ and Alan went, ‘That’ll do,’ and took it. I like it. I think it’s one of his best sleeves.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.
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The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
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I have too many doubts about the direction a Roberts court will take us. Persistent, nagging doubts.
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The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.
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anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.
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The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated... It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.
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Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.
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I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
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I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.
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They were very persistent. They didn't stop writing or calling.
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Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
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But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
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One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.
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The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
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Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure
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...belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.
