#sever

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #difference #obstinacy #other #perseverance

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#after #already #did #doing #get

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#different #early #early mornings #hike #home

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years. ↗

— John Bright

#bad #caused #depression #extension #great

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#budget #california #contributions #crisis #cuts

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#injustice #law #severest #sometimes #strictest

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#being #disparate #i #several #thrive

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#alert #changes #constantly #control #every

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy