Gone Quotes - Page 27

• The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Vittorio Alfieri (1821). “Tragedies”, p.255

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• Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!

  Noel Gallagher

  Dream, Song, Home

  "Song: It's Getting Better (Man!!) (Be Here Now)". August 21, 1997.

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• In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.

  Warren Farrell

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.131, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Taken, Hero

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Sheep, Iron, Long

  Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in "Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign" by Julian Amery, London: Macmillan, (p. 471), 1969.

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• The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.

  Haruki Murakami

  Long, People, House

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

  James Elroy Flecker

  Dream, Pain, Home

  1913 'Brumana'.

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• So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Growing Up, Fun

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Philosophy, Real, Men

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.35, A&C Black

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• Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Queens, Blood, Long

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.201, Penguin

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• Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

  Hugo Chavez

  Israel, People, Mad

  "Venezuela 'to sever Israel ties'", news.bbc.co.uk. August 9, 2006.

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• Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction.

  Donald A. Norman

  Powerful, Effort, Littles

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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• So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?

  Robert Fisk

  Morning, Successful, Army

  "Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2003.

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• What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

  David Gemmell

  Men, Mad, What Is Life

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 12, 1985.

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• Hell is gone and heaven's here,there's nothing left for you to fear.

  Robbie Williams

  Heaven, Hell, Left

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2015

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• Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Looks, Crowns

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• When you're 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.

  Tim Allen

  Father, Wonderful, Moments

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• I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

  Lady Gaga

  Dollars, Goes On, Four

  "Lady Gaga Has No Cash". www.contactmusic.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.

  Dave Grohl

  Gone Away, Love Of My Life, Feelings

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Elements, Matter, Good Things

  Jyllands-Posten, June 25, 2007.

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• That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fate, Dark, Office

  "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.

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• No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Insecurity, Underestimate

  Dan Savage (2002). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America”, E P Dutton

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• In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Loss, Thinking, Numbers

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• It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.

  Barry Long

  Truth, Mind, Littles

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our belief of it. If nobody questions it, it is manifestly a fiction; if it passes current, it is almost sure to be a counterfeit. The course of truth never yet ran smooth.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Relax, May, Fiction

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

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