Plod Quotes

#1. Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

#2. I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#3. Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.

Douglas Wilson

#4. I've always tried to be an actor who ... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives ... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

Michael Gambon

#5. We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

Amy Levy

#6. That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

Mark Twain

#7. There was nothing: just an empty, dark tunnel he was supposed to plod his way through, from "Birth" station to "Death" station. Those looking for faith had simply been trying to find the side branches in this line. But there were only two stations, and only tunnel connecting them.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

#8. Now ... in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Harper Lee

#9. You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.

Howard Pyle

#10. At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.

Jeff Lindsay

#11. I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.

William Carey

#12. You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

Elisabeth Of Wied

#13. It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

Sarah Palin

#14. I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama.

Jon Ronson

#15. I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last ...

Adoniram Judson

#16. Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]

Harper Lee

#17. Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

Mikhail Naimy

#18. If he give me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond that will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

William Carey

#19. Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

James Hilton

#20. No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#21. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.

William C. Bryant

#22. It already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things.

Gayle Forman

#23. Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.

Samuel Beckett

#24. The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.

Colson Whitehead

#25. -I'm reviewing it, the stooped man said, and started to plod off.
-You read it?
-No, he said over his shoulder, -but I know the son of a bitch who wrote it.

William Gaddis

#26. There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods.

Bill Bryson

#27. In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.

Mario Testino

#28. Titles by their nature imply that the play's architecture is like a bull's-eye (and some are) with the point being in the center. Sometimes the point is in the margins, or in the experience of throwing the dart.

Sarah Ruhl

#29. I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.

Ann Goldstein

#30. My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Slavoj Zizek

#31. Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

Buzz Aldrin

#32. Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble. (172)

Sherman Alexie

#33. Once I was in L.A., I realized anyone could act. Why not give it a shot? I started going to a ton of acting classes, and I found I had a real passion for it, probably the biggest passion I've ever had in my whole life.

Kellan Lutz