Top Persists Quotes
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell
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
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
Fisher Ames
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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
George Orwell 
William Blake 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
Thomas Merton 
Taylor Caldwell 
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell 
59% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
Fisher Ames
57% of people like this quote
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
56% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
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
52% of people like this quote