Relentless Quotes - Page 8

• Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

  Teju Cole

  Writing, Potatoes, Environment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by memories. They whisper of fairy tales, poetry, and other lives, as each gesture connects with another and raises yet another from the dead. Shadows flicker on film to an inner melody as I navigate, camera at hand and at the speed of light, through unimaginable worlds - desperately trying to make sense of the joy and suffering before it all disappears.

  Sylvia Plachy

  Memories, Light, Hands

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• I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting rights has had on our African-American brothers and sisters. I have witnessed it.

  Jeff Sessions

  Brother, Impact, Rights

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

  Simon Pegg

  Humanity, Bills, Hicks

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• Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

  John Ortberg

  Perseverance, Solitude, Mold

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• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

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• The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

  Alain Ducasse

  Being Different, Pursuit, Different

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• When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

  Demetri Martin

  Car, Buying, Advertising

  Twitter post from Nov 07, 2013

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• There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Ruffian, Prey

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.571

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• The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.

  Timothy Keller

  Pressure, Prove, Secure

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.73, Penguin

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• I'm very much disciplined because I'm more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.

  Bernie Mac

  Running, Mature, Young

  Source: moviehole.net

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• The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

  Ron Chernow

  People, Mutual Fund, Industry

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• Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

  Charlie Crist

  Party, Men, Optimism

  Charlie Crist's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.

  Hal Lindsey

  Jesus, Doors, Years

  Hal Lindsey, Carole C. Carlson (1972). “The late great planet earth”

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• Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.

  Unknown

  Crush, Nihilism, Spirit

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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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• Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.

  Margo Kingston

  War, Empires, Propaganda

  "Murdoch's war on truth in war reporting". www.smh.com.au. April 7, 2003.

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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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• 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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• Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and, for the relentless searcher, in grimly inaccessible regions of The Bronx.

  James A. Baldwin

  New York, Wall, Mistake

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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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• 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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• Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Hopeful, Challenges

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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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• 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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