Relentless Quotes - Page 12

• No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

  Michael Parenti

  Years, Practice, Culture

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• Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and never lets up, taking you on a ride that leaves your heart pounding. It's almost impossible to put this book down. Dead of Night is an excellent read.

  S.G. Browne

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

  Oswald Chambers

  Talking, Truth Is, Habit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.731, Discovery House

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• The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, War, Relief

  "The Impending Catastrophe and How to Fight It". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

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• Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

  Thomas Gray

  Daughter, Power, Iron

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.20

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• Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is underscored by Satan’s relentless efforts to splinter the family and to undermine the significance of temple ordinances, which bind the family together for eternity. The temple sealing has greater meaning as life unfolds. It will help you draw ever closer together and find greater joy and fulfillment in mortality.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Two, Effort

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• Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

  Witold Rybczynski

  Eye, Television Watching, Ears

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• You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

  Michael Arndt

  Goal, Want, March

  "Michael Arndt Digs Into ‘Toy Story 3’ and the Genius of the Pixar System". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 07, 2010.

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• I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Writing, Passion, Important

  "Interview: Lisa Kleypas, author of 'Crystal Cove'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 14, 2013.

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• In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

  Michelle Malkin

  Doors, Tourism, Needs

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• For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Country, Warfare, Violent

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.341, U of Nebraska Press

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• The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Years, Perfection, Problem

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

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• The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

  Jamais Cascio

  Book, Giving, Fiction

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• The toughest place to play in the SEC is LSU, Death Valley. The fans there are relentless. They don't stop at all. They keep going.

  Darren McFadden

  Lsu, Play, Fans

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• I believe that anyone who is serious and committed to pay the price of learning, discipline and taking the right actions in the right order and at the right times can achieve and become financially successful. In addition, having perseverance and relentless pursuit are great qualities ... that will help.

  John Assaraf

  Perseverance, Believe, Successful

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jul 09, 2010

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• The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Military, War, History

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• By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.

  Florence King

  Equality, America, Government

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• There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

  Guy Endore

  Men, Enemy, Alive

  "Fictional character: Professor Zelin". "Mark of the Vampire", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.

  Andy Greenwald

  Eye, Waiting, Silence

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• Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

  Preston Manning

  Country, Rodents, Canada

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• The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.

  William P. Young

  Agreement, Ongoing, Belief

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Wrinkles, Age, Sagging

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• Non-inflationary economic growth - an increase in the production of goods and services - is structurally necessary for the current money system to exist. That is what drives the relentless conversion of life into money.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Growth, Economic, Increase

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• The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Relief, Alternatives

  "The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It". October 1917 pamphlet. Collected Works, Volume 25, pages 323-369,

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