Persists Quotes

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

What we resist persists.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.