Tolls Quotes - Page 6

• The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come, A thief a warrior and a mole. Though the quest may take its toll, We'll march until we reach our goal.

  Brian Jacques

  Warrior, Goal, Thieves

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.118, Penguin

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• For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old

  Joseph Conrad

  Cutting, Sea, Heaven

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Joseph Conrad: Selected Novels”, p.284, Anthem Press

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• Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

  Tony Visconti

  Past, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

  Bill James

  Emotional, Stories, Murder

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• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  Jerry Weller

  Information, Used, Taxes

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• St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.

  Leonard Little

  Air, Trying, Littles

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• The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Thinking, Nba, Trying

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• If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Bells, Hell, Intolerance

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• Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Children, Real, Struggle

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• I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.

  David Morrell

  War, Farewell, Mind

  "Writer-to-Writer: A Conversation David Morrell, Master of the Modern Thriller". Interview with Mark Rubinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.

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• When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.

  Grigori Rasputin

  Children, Men, Russia

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• Civilized life exacts its toll.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Civilized

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• Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Bridges, Driving, Honest

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

  David Mamet

  War, Farewell, Tragedy

  "TheDC Interviews: David Mamet talks War". Interview with Patrick Howley, dailycaller.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others

  Jon Hamm

  Growing Up, People, Trying

  "'People really needed convincing that they wanted me'". Interview With Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2008.

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• Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.

  Kenny Dalglish

  Jobs, People, Goes On

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

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• We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.

  Fidel Castro

  Children, War, Men

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• Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.

  Gabor Mate

  Breakup, Pain, Stress

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• Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.

  David Rock

  Technology, Average, Office

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• It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.

  Diet Eman

  Steps, Nerves, Moments

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• A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

  Jon Pareles

  Jobs, Stress, Artist

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• Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

  Alfred Noyes

  Flower, Towers, Fading

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

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• Jesus won't cut you off before you're through With him you won't never get a crossed line, And when your bill comes it'll all be properly itemised He's the telephone repairman on the switchboard of my life. The phone line to the saviour's always free of interference He's in at any hour, day or night And when you call J-E-S-U-S you always call toll-free He's the telephone repairman on the switchboard of my life.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jesus, Cutting, Night

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• In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.

  Andre Ward

  Giving Up, Motivation, School

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