Persistent Thoughs Quotes

#1. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

#2. Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!

Jada Pinkett Smith

#3. She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose.

Peter Heller

#4. 'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.

Pamela Sargent

#5. amplified siren. I make it to the old subway entrance.

Lauren Oliver

#6. Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#7. We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

Charles Olson

#8. I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Derek Jacobi

#9. I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

Floyd Abrams

#10. My subject is History of Magic," he said in his dry, wheezy voice. "I deal with facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends." He

J.K. Rowling

#11. What you persistently think becomes your reality.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Joy Harjo

#13. Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.

Edward De Bono