Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.
Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.
Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.
To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
It's not easy for an artist, especially for a girl. But you know, you just have to work very hard, persist, trust what you have, your essence.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.
The fashion industry may persist to label me as 'plus-size,' but I like to think of it as 'my size.'
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.
We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.
. . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.
remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
Thoughts may come and persist in staying. But thoughts that are not put into word or action die unborn!
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.
?W?e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ?difficult ?for people to persist through that.
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.
The fashion industry might persist to label me as plus-sized, but I like to think of it as my-sized.
One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.
I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can fulfill your dreams when you work hard and don't give up.
Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.
We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.
A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.
You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.
No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!
At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.
My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.
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