Relentless Quotes - Page 14

• For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Views, Political

  Jefferson Davis (1912). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”

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• Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

  Nick Denton

  Cynical, Soul, Traffic

  "Media Monkey's diary", www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2012.

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• The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

  Rachel Carson

  War, Civilization, Losing

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

  Russell Brand

  Weed, Silly, Wine

  Russell Brand (2009). “My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

  Rob Bell

  Jobs, Needs, Fresh Start

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.114, Harper Collins

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• Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.

  Gavin de Becker

  Mean, Persistence, Special

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.

  Deb Caletti

  Simple, Love Is, Sure Love

  Deb Caletti (2007). “The Nature of Jade”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

  Criss Jami

  Children, Philosophy, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.39, Criss Jami

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• The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you.

  Cassia Leo

  Fighting, Love Is, Long

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• A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

  Jane McGonigal

  Opportunity, Emotional, Opposites

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.30, Penguin

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• A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo.  Use it often.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Thinking, Mind, Use

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• Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, World, Today

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• I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Sibling, Believe

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• As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Government, Enemy

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• Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

  June Jordan

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• For most men, time moves slowly, oh so slowly, they don't even realize it. But time has revealed itself to me in a very special way. Time is a rushing, howling wind that rages past me, withering me in a single, relentless blast, and then continues on. I've been sitting here passively, submissive to its rage, watching its work. Listen! Time, howling, withering!

  Barnabas

  Moving, Past, Men

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• Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

  Mary Balogh

  Pain, Moving, Past

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.140, Delacorte Press

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• Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack Obama and all things Democratic, to advance its ultimate objective of creating a deliberately misinformed body politic whose fear, anger, mistrust, and discontent is the manna upon which it sustains its parasitic succubus-like existence.

  Jon Stewart

  Creating, Body, Foxes

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• Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

  Douglas Malloch

  Courage, Steel, Daggers

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• Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek.

  Rumi

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• Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Men, People

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Thinking, Cooking

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.

  Dennis Lehane

  Lying, Home, Unconditional Love

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• I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback.

  Tim Tebow

  Dream, Nfl, Pursuit

  Tim Tebow (2016). “Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms”, p.17, WaterBrook

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• If a guy were dating my daughter but didn't want to spend the gas money to come pick her up or refused to buy her dinner because it cost too much, I would question whether he were really in love with her In the same way, I question whether many American churchgoers are really in love with God because they are so hesitant to do anything for Him." Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

  Francis Chan

  Daughter, Crazy, Dating

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.97, David C Cook

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