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.
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office.
What we resist persists.
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.