Tolls Quotes - Page 5

• The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

  Noam Chomsky

  Drug, Worst, Overwhelming

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

  W. S. Merwin

  Hard Times, Rest Of Life, Pessimistic

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Literature, One Thing

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Beer, Science

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.68, Library of America

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• I love doing action films that do challenge me physically. I feel it's my job to keep my stamina up and be as physically fit as possible, so that I can just jump in and do it. It takes its toll sometimes and it's hard work, but I love that.

  Julie Benz

  Jobs, Hard Work, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• ... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

  William James

  Bells, Truth Is, Certain

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It's also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development. The two countries have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Two, Effort

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• ... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

  Emily Dickinson

  Depression, Space, Soul

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.141, Harvard University Press

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• These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace and they have real consequences on the every day lives of workers.

  P. M. Forni

  Stress, Real, Add

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• Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

  Eric Maisel

  Mean, Ideas, Answers

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• We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

  Gary Webb

  Heart, Childhood, Adults

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• In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.

  Vinton Cerf

  Choices, World, Want

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• I think I've slowed down quite a bit. I don't try or attempt even half of the stuff I used to want to try way back in the day when I was a lot younger. It takes a toll on the body throughout the years.

  Jeff Hardy

  Thinking, Years, Trying

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

  Roger Cohen

  America, Iraq, Generations

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• Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the Esquimauxsledges are drawn by dogs, and in the twilight of the northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and walrus on the ice. They are of sick and diseased imaginations who would toll the world's knell so soon. Cannot these sedentary sects do better than prepare the shrouds and write the epitaphs of those other busy living men? The practical faith of all men belies the preacher's consolation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Twilight, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• In the early days I was incredibly creative and productive - I loved the research trips, I loved the creation and finding technical solutions to creative challenges. I didn't need alcohol and the pills for that. What changed was, I was afraid to say no - that little word, N.O. Because I thought it showed weakness. And with more and more success I would just say yes. And keep on taking more work on - which took its toll.

  John Galliano

  Creative, Alcohol, Challenges

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• The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

  Thomas Sowell

  Attitude, Self, White

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• In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Dollars, Would Be

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• Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem.

  Sharon Gannon

  Fishing, Ecosystems, Planets

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". Q & A with Sharon Gannon, jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Issues, Perfect

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• What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of good government, of the economy particularly. And this has hit education badly. The news you get from the universities in Nigeria is often appalling. I don't think a lot of it gets out. There is the obsession with cults and all kinds of dreadful things going on and all this is taking its toll and it is not surprising that quality of students and graduates who come out is not good. It will not be surprising if this shows in the quality of work they do.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Government, Talking

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• When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Luxury, Necessary Use

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1870). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

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• The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

  David L. Katz

  War, People, Bird

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• My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

  Regina King

  Play, Personality, Challenges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

  Andrew Solomon

  Knowing, Space, Race

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