Gone Quotes - Page 16

• It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Things I Love, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

  A. Y. Jackson

  War, Artist, Forever

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• The day I got called up to the majors I wasn't feeling well. I had gone out with my friends for 'sodas' the night before.

  John Flaherty

  Night, Yankees, Feelings

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• Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.

  Juhi Chawla

  Stupid, Decision, Made

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• The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.

  Edith Sitwell

  Hate, Lying, Heart

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Men, Unique

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 3 (p. 21), 1958.

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• A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Men, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.429

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• Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

  John Dewey

  Spring, War, Class

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies - or the coalition's forces - with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?

  Margaret Thatcher

  America, Allies, Nuclear

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 49), April 16, 2002.

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• In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.

  Anthony Trollope

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Anthony Trollope (2011). “Phineas Redux”, p.95, OUP Oxford

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• If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Nuts, Insanity

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• Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Humorous, Creating

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

  Matthew Arnold

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 57

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• I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken

  Bob Dylan

  Girl, Taken, Skins

  Song: Ballad in Plain D, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  Barack Obama

  War, Men, Winning

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Opportunity, Forever, Bugs

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

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• Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  War, Fighting, Victory

  Interview with James Cameron, Picture Post, October 28, 1950.

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• A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.

  Margaret Mead

  Philosophy, Giving, Choices

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Years, Heaven, Tears

  Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.55

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• And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.

  Leonard Cohen

  Built

  Song: Here It Is, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  Camille Paglia

  School, Men, Yale

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Memories, Keys

  Song: Baby Grand, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Men, Hands, Perfect

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, p. 256, 1980.

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• A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Daughter, Children, Parent

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 66, 1895.

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