Endless Quotes - Page 28

• The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

  Paul Schullery

  Fishing, Rivers, Issues

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• My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Rama, Dependent

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• I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I'm sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.

  Frederick Lenz

  Blue, Doctors, Understanding

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• It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.

  Jack Nicholson

  Art, Cancer, Home

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• Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Succession

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• So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Men, Perfect

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.420

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• An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life And Death, Realization, Flow

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Vacation, Two, Firsts

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

  John Milton

  Son, Paradise, Able

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.576, Modern Library

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• It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

  Diane Ackerman

  Brain, Essentials, Attention

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.239, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Morning, Aunt, Talking

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• And endless are the modes of speech, and far
  Extends from side to side the field of words.

  Homer

  Speech, Fields, Sides

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.220

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• As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

  Isaac Watts

  Reading, Men, Intellectual

  Isaac Watts, Joseph Emerson (1855). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.66

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• The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Ocean, Tea, Trying

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press

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• Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Forgiveness, Eye, Sight

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.27, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Endless is the search of truth.

  Laurence Sterne

  Truth

  Laurence Sterne (1788). “The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.155

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• If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Finding Yourself, Mazes, Way

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

  Novalis

  Spring, Flower, Air

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• If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

  William Beveridge

  Long, Heaven, Way

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• You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Long, Gone, Flash

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1966). “Swans on an Autumn River: Stories”

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• We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.

  Tony Fadell

  Ipods, Week, Refinement

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• The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Insecure, Love Is, Men

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• The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feel Better, Thinking

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• When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Suffering

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• The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us to 1000 ppm, is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs. It is a world of a hundred Katrinas, of countless environmental refugees

  Joseph J. Romm

  War, Carbon Cycle, Environmental

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