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persistence white maintenance
Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo. Wesley Morris
persistence people danger
What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger. Wangari Maathai
persistence long fruit
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised. Yukio Mishima
persistence quality needs
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down. Walter Kirn
persistence independence apathy
[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity. James Joyce
persistence goal weakness
You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power. Napoleon Hill
persistence opportunity goal
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success Austin Phelps
persistence winning sea
Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish. John D. Voelker
persistence guarantees-that results
Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable. Paramahansa Yogananda
luck
Just my luck... Not even the self-destruct is working... Duo Maxwell
lucky terrific wonderful
Joe's a wonderful actor and has had a terrific career. We're lucky to have him back in Pittsburgh.
luck wish
I actually wish Rosie a lot of luck. Howard Stern
luckily played
He just wanted to play football. He would have played for free. But luckily we had an agent.
lucky nobody
He's always been tough. He didn't play around with nobody today. You (were) lucky to get a hit. Miguel Tejada
lucky pick roles sort
I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do. Ram Kapoor
lucky
He is just amazing. I'm always lucky to have him.
lucky england defenders
Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender. Ron Atkinson
luck merit
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. Rex Stout
wish
He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while. Mark Richt
wish pianist ifs
If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something. Woody Allen
wish care enough
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. William James
wish faces impossible
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody. Roald Dahl
wish impossible holes
In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it. Robert Smith
wish my-sister candle
My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true Sara Shepard
wish next anticipation
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. Samuel Johnson
wish literature beginning-middle-and-end
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wish alternatives life-is
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living. Saul Bellow