Inching Closer Quotes

#1. It's okay to be discouraged. It's not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you've decided to lay siege to in your own life - that's persistence.

Ryan Holiday

#2. As one of the little streams starts snaking my way, inching closer to the toe of my shoe, I hop over the spreading puddle and out of its reach. I don't look back to see if it's going to follow me. I'm already three blocks away and still gaining speed

M.A. George

#3. We lose and lose, but we're still here. Shaking in place, afraid of doing something. I'm tired of settling for this because I don't know if something better exists. It has to. What point is there otherwise? I can do something about it now. And I will.

Veronica Rossi

#4. But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

Stephan Jenkins

#5. Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.

Luke Evans

#6. While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

Thomas Keating

#7. 'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

Evangeline Lilly

#8. What happened to Darling's face? (Kiara) It got his. Repeatedly. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. I actually bedazzled when I was younger. I totally did that to my jeans.

Jillian Bell

#10. Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Charles Horton Cooley

#11. God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking

#12. I love the smell of you. Sea air, leather, and your skin...all of you." She sewed soft kisses over his chest, inching toward the hollow at the base of his neck. "You'll never be free of me."
His arms tightened like manacles, squeezing her closer. "Never have I wanted to be free of you.

Gina Conkle

#13. I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

Ryan Lochte

#14. The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Mary Douglas

#15. Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#16. Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Paul Auster

#17. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner ...

Teju Cole