Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.
But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.
Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
You will draw to yourself that which you most persistently think about
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?
No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.
Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
