Relentless Quotes - Page 12

• If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.

  Dean Koontz

  Beach, Memories, Broken

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies as high-speed rail instead of maximizing fossil fuel use, and solar energy, is not "relentless resource extraction."

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Energy, Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes." But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel."

  Francisco Goldman

  Dark, Violence, Crime

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Book, Reading, Three

  A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Sunday, Personality

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• That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

  Daniel Okrent

  Hard Times, Dubious, Faces

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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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• 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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• Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.

  Margaret Morse Nice

  Passion, Research, Masters

  Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research is a Passion with Me”, p.41, Dundurn

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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

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

  Preston Manning

  Country, Rodents, Canada

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• In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Family, Home, Race

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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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• 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 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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