Gone Quotes - Page 31

• We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Imagination, Wish

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.225

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• Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.

  Judith Martin

  Unique, Knowing, Tragedy

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Thinking, Expression, Two

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• It is sad
  To see the light of beauty wane away,
  Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet
  Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness;
  But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone,
  To lose hope, care not for the coming thing,
  And feel all things go to decay within us.

  Philip James Bailey

  Spring, Heart, Eye

  Philip James Bailey, “Festus - XXIII”

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• When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Mean, Curiosity

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Hair, Use, World

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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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• Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
  And still a new to-morrow does come on.
  We by to-morrow draw out all our store,
  Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

  Abraham Cowley

  Yield, Yesterday, Doe

  Abraham Cowley (1809). “The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse”, p.225

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• When I remember something which I had,
  But which is gone, and I must do without,
  I sometimes wonder how I can be glad,
  Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout;
  It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet
  My days will not be better days, should I forget.

  Jean Ingelow

  Regret, Thinking, Remember Something

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206

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• The moon is bleached as white as wool,
  And just dropping under;
  Every star is gone but three,
  And they hang far asunder,--
  There's a sea-ghost all in gray,
  A tall shape of wonder!

  Jean Ingelow

  Stars, Twilight, Moon

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.135

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• I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

  Marie Dressler

  Dog, Horse, Block

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• When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Men, Fire

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• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Oxygen

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• I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor. We give Oscars to people and it's like, 'Aw, this person is the greatest person on earth', but being an actor is pretty easy in comparison to stand-up comedy. It's no surprise that several stand-up comics have gone on to become great actors. I don't know any great actors that have gone on to become great stand-up comics.

  Jim Jefferies

  Giving, People, Actors

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.

  Bob Proctor

  School, Past, People

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Party, Interesting, People

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• You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.

  George Ella Lyon

  People, Tree, Bigs

  George Ella Lyon (2010). “Borrowed Children”, p.82, University Press of Kentucky

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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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• The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Ocean, Fog, Blue

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

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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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• Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

  Augustus William Hare

  Country, Civilization, Causes

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