Endless Quotes

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  Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  Erich Fromm

  Effort, Greed, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Inspiration, Funny Relationship

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.455, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

  Jean Vanier

  Love, Forgiveness, Love Is

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• To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

  Mary Oliver

  Work, Positivity, Attention

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

  Henry James

  History, Tourism, Literature

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.495, Library of America

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• Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Grief, Sadness

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Rights, Done, Politics

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  J. B. Priestley

  Marriage, Clothes, Worst

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• The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Starting Over, Principles, Becoming

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

  Paul Theroux

  Death, Art, Passion

  "Hockney's Alphabet, D is for Death". Book editing by Stephen Spender, 1991.

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• There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

  Marion Milner

  Roots, Causes, Obstacles

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.157, Taylor & Francis

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• Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

  Shirley Knight

  Film, Odd, Endless Love

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• When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

  Kenneth Koch

  Jewels, Awful, Boxes

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• I think that music has an endless life.

  Anne Dudley

  Thinking, Musical, Endless Life

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• Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

  Mother Jones

  Girl, Boys, Hands

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• Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

  Barry Sheene

  Doe, Bores, Motorbike

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• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  Ed O'Brien

  Watches, Tvs, Presses

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• Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Home, Tired, House

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• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Clerks, Palaces, Mock

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• Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Writing, Effort, Quality

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane. Chapter 1, 1935.

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