Gone Quotes - Page 22

• There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves by drunkenly flashing the camera for "Girls Gone Wild" or something.

  Marie Calloway

  Girl, Book, Writing

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

  Margaret Deland

  Gossip, Feelings, Faults

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• While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

  David Hume

  Life, Life Is, Reasoning

  David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.122

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• After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

  Isabel Allende

  Bullshit, Fifty

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• If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.

  Ruth Stout

  Morning, Garden, June

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

  Ilka Chase

  Loneliness, Two, Effort

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• But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Forever, Realizing, Time Of My Life

  Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Garboli, Lisa Ginzburg, Marino Sinibaldi (2003). “It's Hard to Talk about Yourself”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• [On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Attitude, Party, Night

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on since. And that, I think, must be the global perspective. Tolerance implies more than saying, "Well, let the Muslims go on with what they are doing." It also means trying to learn something from them and adding that to your own tradition. That is the attitude I think needs to inform the global citizen of the future.

  Ninian Smart

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

  George VI

  Weight, Modern, Scrutiny

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• Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

  Leonard Bishop

  Firefly, Dark, Perception

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• The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

  Luther Burbank

  God, Ideas, People

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• I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Greatness, Thinking, Forever

  Pierre Trudeau's speech before the Canadian Senate in opposition to the Meech Lake Accord, March 30, 1988.

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• Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

  David Hockney

  Art, Future, Looks

  "David Hockney". Book by David Hockney, 1981.

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• What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.

  Billy Corgan

  People, Childhood, Band

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• There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

  George W. Bush

  Country, America, Tough Times

  George W. Bush's speech at an Economic Forum at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. August 13, 2002.

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• In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman

  Marie de France

  Knights, Gentleman, World

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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• You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.

  Morris Graves

  Moving, Mind, Wish

  "Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles". Book by Osvald Sirén, Volume 2, p. 14, 1974.

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• I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.

  Christine McVie

  Security Guards, Want, Way

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• New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons.

  Ryan Cayabyab

  Home, Artist, Here I Am

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• Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

  David Cameron

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Put in a tight spot by the cat's backside" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2006.

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• Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

  Daniel J. Solove

  Littles, Privacy, Lost

  Daniel J. Solove (2011). “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security”, p.30, Yale University Press

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