Persist To Retain Quotes

#1. There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.

Benjamin Crump

#2. The people protesting to save these woods are right - these trees are almost untouched. His voice was different somehow. It was exactly the sound in his voice that I heard at the funeral of my great-uncle.

Ned Hayes

#3. I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

Marie Helvin

#4. The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

Norman Cousins

#5. Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#6. there was a long silence before the screams started, as if, even in pain, people watched each other first to see how to act.

Karan Mahajan

#7. The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to get to know you as quickly as possible, because you're now taking the place of somebody that they love dearly, or somebody that they hate sincerely, and so they need to know who you are.

Trevor Noah

#8. Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Abraham Cahan

#9. It felt like a kiss from a man whose reasons were strictly carnal. And I like it.

B. J. Daniels

#10. Get a move on, pal, life goes on happening while you're hiding ...

Dawn French

#11. I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

Michael Marshall Smith

#12. you should never publicly criticize anyone or anything unless it is a matter of morals or ethics. Anything negative you say could at the very least ruin someone's day, or worse, break someone's heart, or simply change someone from being a future ally of yours to someone who will never forget

Timothy Ferriss