Goes On Quotes - Page 9

• Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, This Lullaby, Lullaby

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• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  Pablo Neruda

  Goodbye, Ocean, Destiny

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eye, Religion, Bishops

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Gun, Pigs

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 114), 1963.

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• You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.

  Jay Asher

  Mess, Persons, Knows

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.201, Penguin

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• Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

  Cornelia Funke

  Inspirational, Cheer Up, Book

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• You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

  Melissa Bank

  Forgiving, Want, Needs

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.49, Penguin

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• We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Brother, Lds, Victory

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• Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Vacation, Pleasure Seeking, Relax

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• Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fighting, Years, Married

  "The Horse and His Boy" by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 15), 1954.

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• Wonder. Go on and wonder.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiration, Wonder

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.79, Modern Library

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• You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Perseverance, Persistence, Voice

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.167, Penguin

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• When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

  Paul Auster

  Life, Pain, Reality

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.103, Faber & Faber

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• I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.

  H. L. Mencken

  Depressing, Artist, Careers

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• At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that goes on in America -- a belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding. America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn't have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature.

  Bill Bryson

  Zoos, Feet, America

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.95, VNR AG

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• People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

  Thomas Hardy

  People, May, Buying

  Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 1 (1896)

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• There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

  A. S. Byatt

  Events, Would Be, Happens

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Sep 30, 2011

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• It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Life, Motivational, Moving On

  Kaye Gibbons (1997). “A Virtuous Woman”, p.25, Algonquin Books

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• You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.

  Dan Chaon

  Thinking, Long, Bottom

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Attitude, Thinking

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• A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

  Robert Fulghum

  Long, Black, Twenties

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• I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (2004). “Residence on Earth”, p.119, New Directions Publishing

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• The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Mean

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• Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

  Tom Robbins

  Music, Sweet, Pain

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.143, Bantam

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• If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Sleep, Past, May

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