Endless Quotes - Page 4

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

  Anne Rice

  Literature, Possibility, Feathers

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

  W. Heath Robinson

  Design, Guests, May

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• Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

  Barry Sheene

  Doe, Bores, Motorbike

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

  Ted Dexter

  Grind, Cricket

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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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• 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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• Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Bothering You, Endless Time, Hands

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.38, Modern Library

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• Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Love Is, Secret

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• The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Sea, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.825, Delphi Classics

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• The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Karma, Past, Secret

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

  Jane Jacobs

  Squares, Density, Today

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.204, Vintage

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• I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

  Rachel Nichols

  Ice Cream, Simplicity, Flavor

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• Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Knowledge, Men, Despair

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• After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Years, Two

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing Up”, Signet Book

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• Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

  Haim Ginott

  Personality, Parent, Events

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