“It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.”
Source: The Notebook
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American writer and novelist 1965Related quotes
“What keeps me going is goals.”
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Context: I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.
But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.
lecture III: "This Unscientific Age"
The Meaning of It All (1999)
“This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed — for anyone”
"When War Drums Roll" (17 September 2001)
2000s
Context: This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed — for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it. Now.
“I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.”
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“People often forget that in 1940 there was no guarantee that we were going to win.”
This quote is actually from Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames. See "The Beacon of the Western Way of Life" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=135
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