Keep Going Quotes - Page 21

• It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Snow, Laughing, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.

  Henry Rollins

  Self, Should Have, Years

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• In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father. A loving mother. Warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted. And the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Strong, Disappointment

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.337, Delacorte Press

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• I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Long, Anxiety

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Empty Places, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Artist, Challenges

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• I find that hard to believe. Nothing comes free in this world. Ever. (Sin) Then get up and get dressed. There’s the door. I’m sure you know how to use it. It’s a really simple process. You put one foot in front of the other, turn the knob, and keep going. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Simple, Doors

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.125, Macmillan

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• There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

  Steve Forbes

  Never Quit, Juice, Economy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

  Joyce Johnson

  Passages, Ifs

  Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.186, Penguin

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• Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people across from you on subways or in airport lounges, there but not there. Your eyes keep going back to them, for lack of anything more interesting to look at, and then you feel bad for staring.

  Mary Roach

  Eye, Airports, People

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• To infinity then. (Bubba) What’s that mean? (Nick) It’s something my dad used to say when I was a kid. To infinity, meaning you’d see something through to the end. (Bubba) Infinity is never-ending. (Nick) That’s right, which means you keep going and going no matter what happens or what obstacles you meet. Over, under, around or through. There’s always a way. And if you have to chase something to infinity, strap on your big-boy pants, hiking boots, and go. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dad, Mean, Kids

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• Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Love You, People, Sorrow

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Certain Girls: A Novel”, p.386, Simon and Schuster

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• Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the thing which is going to keep going.

  Robert Dessaix

  War, Writing, Different

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your life alone." "Don't change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay." Apparently I was supposed to sniff people to determine their competence. "How do you know?" He shrugged. "You just have to trust her.

  Ilona Andrews

  Nice, Smell, People

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• The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

  Molly Ringwald

  Running, Book, Wonderful

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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• a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn’t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.

  Philip Roth

  Jobs, Father, Ambition

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• I think it's important to know how to free in case you fall of what you've written, you can be able to keep going with your rhymes. I think it's also good for the culture of emceeing. It's about microphones and about controlling the crowd; it's about rocking the party.

  Kurupt

  Fall, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Peace, Mean

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• Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?

  Surya Das

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Mean

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My step-dad started playing hockey in Detroit so we moved and I had to start home school. I started watching movies since I had a bunch of free time and then I was like, 'You know what? I want to give this a shot, move back to L.A., and audition.' The first show I booked was a show called Threshold with Carla Gugino and it was obviously a terrifying experience and I felt out of my comfort zone, but it made me want to keep going because it was fun.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Fun, Dad, Moving

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Grateful, Thinking, People

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, believermag.com. September 1, 2009.

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• Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Motion Before Motivation: It means you get started FIRST, then FEEL the Inspiration to keep going.

  Mike D

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

  Mickey Spillane

  Country, New York, Hate

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

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• As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

  George Saunders

  Trying, Stories, Firsts

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