#persists

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ↗

— George Orwell

#fair #gives #hearing #his #intelligent

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#being #our #our people #people #persists

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#away #eggs #gentleman #hen #her

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. ↗

— Albert Camus

#barbarous #because #been #centuries #check

What we resist persists. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#resist

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. ↗

— William Blake

#folly #fool #his #persists #who

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#connect #developed #fiction #find #follow

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#err #error #fool #liable #man

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#best #bring #different #live #makes

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#exists #genetic #individual #lives #memory