Relentless Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Yield, Wind, Civilization

  "China, Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, Ch. 1, 1972.

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• Be relentless in your pursuit for expansion.

  Robert Greene

  Expansion, Pursuit

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.80, Profile Books

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• I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

  Benjamin Zander

  Architect, Possibility, Humans

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

  Robert Carlyle

  Balls, Television, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

  Thomas Friedman

  Two, World, Quests

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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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• Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Impatient, Areas

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• Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Beautiful, Dream, People

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz (2011). “My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933”, p.565, Yale University Press

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• Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility of catastrophic climate change is substantially increased by the 40 million barrels of oil burned every day by vehicles. We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Moving, Sacrifice, Land

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• I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.

  Ben Marcus

  Book, Thinking, Darkness

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

  Grant Morrison

  Jobs, Men, Expectations

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.

  David Mixner

  Struggle, Issues, Rights

  "Interview with Evan Wolfson: Marriage Equality and the Presidential Election" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2007.

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• Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.

  Brennan Manning

  Father, Men, Grace

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• At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Commitment, Technology, Issues

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.148, Macmillan

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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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• What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Relentless Pursuit, Pursuit

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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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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