Relentless Quotes - Page 9

• People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

  Agnes Repplier

  Talking, People, Sacred

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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• Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Opportunity, Substance, Texture

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• Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Ideas, People, Intellectual

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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• It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Revenge, Thinking, Suffering

  Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011). “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.

  Anna Thomas

  Children, Food, Kids

  Anna Thomas (2009). “Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

  Elaine Scarry

  Military, War, Pieces

  Elaine Scarry (1985). “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World”, p.85, Oxford University Press

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• There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as palpable and relentless as any junkie's craving, and will possess me all day until I can park myself in a chair and do my work.

  Jillian Medoff

  Drama, Writing, Desire

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are. In a movie like this you may have a little less time and few dialogue scenes and exposition scenes for your character to really get that across, and so I wanted to be able to convey that she's not somebody who's just punching a clock but she has this weird emotional investment in her job to where she does get quite myopic and that's what makes her relentless.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Jobs, Character, Emotional

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Bears, Sole, Tenderness

  Pablo Neruda, “‘in The Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones’”

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• If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

  Ernest Cline

  Moving, Simple, Player

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• The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

  Hiroshi Sakurazaka

  Fiber, Hoping For The Best

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• Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

  Garrison Keillor

  Calling, Neglect, Be Good

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• There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hypocrisy, Enemy, Superstitions

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. : Complete”

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• Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but certainly what we see globally. And I don't see anywhere any philosophical analysis that suggests we know how to get out of this.

  Harry Belafonte

  Philosophical, America, Analysis

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.

  N. T. Wright

  Honesty, Hats, Tradition

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Essence, Liberty

  "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project)". Book by Andrew Bacevich, 2008.

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• I am pretty relentless about exercise. I love working out and doing cardiovascular workouts. I'm now doing the Whole Life Challenge to discover the unhealthy patterns in my diet and to adjust them to more reasonable levels. And more yoga!

  Tim Matheson

  Workout, Yoga, Exercise

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth. I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.

  Theo Rossi

  Running, Dog, New York

  "ORIGIN Interview: Sons of Anarchy Actor Theo Rossi". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

  Sam Altman

  Execution, Speed, Advantage

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a free market will eventually weed out the stupid from both 'ends' of the food chain otherwise described as supply and demand. As money is liberated from the hands of the stupid, those who would sell products or services to the stupid will eventually lose their share of the marketplace. Devoid of any 'benevolent' interference from government, the process is gloriously relentless, and cannot help but yield a successively smarter class of participants.

  Edward Britton

  Weed, Stupid, Government

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• If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.

  Jason Mraz

  Somewhere Else, Focus, Brain

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• My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

  Marv Albert

  Strong, Games, Ping Pong

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with … Marv Albert". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. June 12, 2011.

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• My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

  Billy Crystal

  Thinking, Mind, Needs

  "Billy Crystal, Up Since 1948". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 8, 2013.

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• You do what you have to do to compete, and that takes you to places where you are in a relentless state to find an edge and compete. That mentality keeps you on and on point. The how is following the drive, being resourceful and creative.

  Pete Carroll

  Creative, States, Where You Are

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Believe, People

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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