"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

-- Plutarch

#Perseverance Quotes #Taken Quotes #Persistence Quotes

“No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.”
“If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”
“Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness”

Source : John McPhee (2003). “The Founding Fish”, p.330, Macmillan
“The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.”
“This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.”
“The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.”
“What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.”
“One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.”

Source : Piers Anthony (2002). “A Spell for Chameleon (Original Edition)”, p.20, Del Rey

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