Gone Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere a little more local, but I wanted the academic challenges Wofford had to offer. It worked out pretty well for me obviously.

  Brenda Jackson

  Strong, Challenges, Littles

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• Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.

  Sara Nelson

  Reading, Writing, People

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• Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

  Paule Marshall

  Past, Understanding, Sometimes

  Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.206, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.

  Christopher Paolini

  Writing, Character, People

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• The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

  Stuart Law

  Team, People, Bars

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• Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Country, Years, Perception

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• For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Farewell, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Bird, Guests

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.852, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him.

  David Letterman

  Campaigns, Broke, Newts

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• The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not to be confused with a cocktail inspired by John McCain, the Cosmopoligrip. And then there was one a couple of years ago inspired by George W. Bush, the Mojidiot. Of course, there was the Bill Clinton Screwdriver.

  David Letterman

  Couple, Confused, Crazy

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• He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

  John Muir

  Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Higher

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• I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

  Patsy Cline

  Mother, Support, Ifs

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• I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

  Ishmael

  Brother, Hip Hop, Next

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• Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Dropping Acid, Best Job

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• No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.

  Woodrow Wyatt

  Country, Games, Communist

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• A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all...but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Taken, Reflection

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• If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.

  James Herriot

  Dog, Tails, Littles

  James Herriot (2012). “Let Sleeping Vets Lie”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Long, Community

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• First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

  George W. Norris

  War, Rights, Law

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.194, U of Nebraska Press

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• Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through all the gradient shifts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Light, Self

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• I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Thinking, Eagles

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• The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, Growth, Wreaths

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Over You, Dying

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