Never The Less She Persisted Quotes

#1. When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.

Sam Shepard

#2. Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

Greg Graffin

#3. The dead do not think logically, for they do not think at all.

Tony Daniel

#4. After all, in fairy tales, there was only one thing to do. In every story with a long sleep and a waking in it. An easy thing, a pretty thing. Standard currency.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. If you never persisted, you will never succeed.

Vann Chow

#6. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

Marina Abramovic

#7. With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#8. To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

Florence Kelley

#9. There are fads ion science, just as there are fads in clothes

Fulton J. Sheen

#10. If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

Lou Holtz

#11. So ... do you?" He persisted.
"Yes," she said finally with a mystified laugh. "I wrap my head in a towel."
He nodded, satisfied. "I thought so."
"Did you ever think about cutting back on the caffeine?"
Miles shook his head. "Never.

Nicholas Sparks

#12. Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different ways of approaching a keyhole. He never tired, and he ever gave up ... because if there was any justice in the universe, he wouldn't be trapped here forever.

Neal Shusterman

#13. We live so many lifetimes in one lifetime.

The most precious form of life is the child. Second is the cacao plant.

All I can do is do all I can.

Robyn Engel

#14. They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules - rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.

Anne Ursu

#15. After my older sister Pauline died, Faith dried my tears night after night as I cried myself to sleep. Faith persisted, and it woke me up every morning after, forcing me to leave the security of my down-covered cave and feel the warmth of the sun on my face. Faith never gives up.

Terri Enghofer

#16. Secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

Tom Sutcliffe

#17. There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

Major Taylor