Gone Quotes

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  If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, God, Country

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Deception

  Following the Equator ch. 59, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Change, Courage

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Jul 06, 2015

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• Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

  Joni Mitchell

  Motivational, Human Condition, Knows

  Song: Big Yellow Taxi

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• I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Hope

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

  James A. Baldwin

  Forgiveness, Encouragement, Pain

  "Me and My House". Harper's Magazine, November 1955.

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• They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

  Henry Vaughan

  Light, Age, World

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Way, Danger

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Not lost, but gone before.

  Matthew Henry

  Losing, Lost

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• Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

  Mary Astor

  Asking Questions, Asking, Innocence

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

  Meister Eckhart

  Funny, God, Home

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• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Courage, Wind, Reputation

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sorry, Wind, Jail

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• What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .

  Steve Ballmer

  Business, Years, People

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• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

  Jacques Chirac

  Hands, Long, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

  Russell Lynes

  Names, Live For Today, Architecture

  Russell Lynes (1963). “The Domesticated Americans”, New York : Harper

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• Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

  Owen Chamberlain

  Marijuana, Generations, Scientist

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• I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

  Bijou Phillips

  Writing, Decision, Made

  Interview with Bruce Labruce, www.indexmagazine.com. 2000.

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• The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

  Mick Jagger

  Fleeting, Fluttering, Elusive

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• The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Want, Reason, Cricket

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• The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

  Richard Linklater

  Interesting, Able, Film

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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