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“Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.”

Long Whole Energy Drama Narrative Related Poetry Is Poetic Epic Persistent Succession

Book:The Lyric: An Essay

Source: The Lyric: An Essay

“At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.”

Ends Government Evil Modern Century Remains Tyranny Communism Impulse Persistent Nazism

Author:Joseph Sobran

“I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.”

Want Writing Interesting Fans Regret Ambition Boring Journalist Interviews Hiding Angle Persistent Guardian I Regret Sinister Something Interesting

Author:Lana Del Rey

“Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.”

Feels Doe Country Seems Wife Fate Brother Mets Silent London Ghost Permanent Immigrants Exile Persistent Boston Melbourne

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.”

“Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.”

Joy Weak Fulfillment Persistent

Author:Delano Johnson

“The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.”

Way Christian Jesus Christ Lord Jesus Christ Devotion Steady Competitors Persistent Refusal Christian Work

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”

Inspirational Matter Seems Success Motivation Successful Teacher Self Esteem Positive Letting Go Giving Up Perseverance Appreciation Persistence Being Successful Motivational Sports Continuing Persist Never Giving Up Key To Success Persistent Given Up Stay Strong Success And Failure Great Success Insistence Insisting Perserverance Succes Determination And Success Will And Determination Hanging On Best Success Determination Motivational Measure Of Success Do Not Give Up Determination Perseverance Never Give Up On Something Perseverance And Determination Greatest Success Inspirational Perseverance Just Stay Strong Just Give Up Perseverence Overnight Success I Will Never Give Up Persistence Inspirational Never Ever Give Up Never Give Up Hope Reaching Success I Will Not Give Up Life Determination Never Give Up Inspirational Self Perseverance Success Of Others Short Never Give Up Won't Give Up Going Strong Define Success Persistence In Business Envy And Success Famous Never Give Up Do N't Give Up Determination By Famous People

Author:William Feather

“Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”

Way Events Familiar Prophecy Persistent Calamity

Book:The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Force Stress Temptation Neglect Civilized Gravity Strain Persistent Barbarians Barbarism Propensity Under Stress

Book:The Public Philosophy

Source: The Public Philosophy

“Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity”

Promise Perception Perseverance Prosperity Pessimism Passive Persistent

Author:Yatin Patel

“The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Country Wisdom Politics Easy Common Mistake Millions Economy Forever Failing Demand Method Common Sense Liberalism Temper Persistent Experimentation

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.”

Kindness Ill Conquer Persistent

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.”

Humans Facts Pain Life Is Religion Religious Vision Mass Optimism Misery Human Life Enjoyment Flash Expansion Persistent Occasional Lighting Transient

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.”

Quality Patience Generosity Tenderness Persistent Gardener Nurturing Great Qualities

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.”

Ifs Needs Spiritual Too Much Cost Stones Silent Oppression Protest Throwing Bullets Oppressed Persistent Terrific Dissatisfaction Oppressors

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.”

Political Suffering Order Literature Our Lives Conviction Peculiar Persistent Pursued

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure”

Way Should Eye Form Rooms Television Ears Staring Leisure Inferiors Persistent Relentless Daydreaming Television Watching

Author:Witold Rybczynski

“Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.”

Men Years Believe Art Hard Work Perfect Imagine Perfection Excellence Strive Profession Decline Persistent Elixir Happiest Man Elixir Of Life

Author:Theodore Martin

“Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.”

Ifs Men Giving Sometimes Design Giving Up Persistence Resolution Persistent Undertakings

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is gained, and very much is lost, by persistent niggardliness in this direction.”

Should Science Time Lost Persistent Reckless Geologist

Author:Charles Lapworth

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