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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• 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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• Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

  John Locke

  Endless Time, People, Trying

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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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• I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

  Helen Keller

  Tragedy, Apathy, Way

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

  Philip Schaff

  Song, Gratitude, Book

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.182, Library of Alexandria

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• But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

  William Godwin

  Parent, Care, Youth

  William Godwin (1823). “The Enquirer”, p.60

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• There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

  Hamlin Garland

  Light, Wife, Toil

  1899 Boy Life on the Prairie,'Melons and Early Frost'.

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• Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Perception, Suits

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• Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

  Clive James

  Dancing, Nails, Giants

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

  Anne Rice

  Literature, Possibility, Feathers

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• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Always Trying, Literature, World

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• You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

  Don Bluth

  Pouring, Holes

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

  Ted Dexter

  Grind, Cricket

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• Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

  W. Heath Robinson

  Design, Guests, May

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• It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

  Michael Scheuer

  War, Thinking, Self

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