Gone Quotes - Page 32

• To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

  Edith Hamilton

  Beautiful, Greek, World

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.

  Edith Hamilton

  Ideas, Giving, Religion

  Edith Hamilton (1993). “The Greek Way”, p.225, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and classify it - a fly. And in that very cognitive exercise, part of the wonder is gone. Once we have labeled the things around us we do not bother to look at them so carefully. Words are part of our rational selves, and to abandon them for a while is to give freer reign to our intuitive selves.

  Jane Goodall

  Exercise, Self, Giving

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• It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Business, Inspiration, Giving

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• I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Thinking, Community

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• When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

  Edouard Bourdet

  Mean, Men, Suffering

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• [On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

  Molly Haskell

  Sex, Passing, Sensuality

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• It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

  Olive Schreiner

  Cutting, Men, Ice

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “Woman and Labor”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

  Indra Devi

  Personality, Anxiety, Living Once

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• I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Smart, People

  "ABC's This Week Promotes Dem. Al Franken: 'Traded in Comedy for Politics'". Interview with Jeff Zeleny, www.newsbusters.org. May 4, 2014.

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• How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

  Seth Godin

  Hero, Discovery, Two

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.28, Penguin

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• Time fleeth on,
  Youth soon is gone,
  Naught earthly may abide;
  Life seemeth fast,
  But may not last--
  It runs as runs the time.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Change, Running, May

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.51

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• The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever.

  Milton Berle

  Beautiful, Making Love, Lasts

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• How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Running, Sweet, Flower

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.

  Marie de Gournay

  Sex, Taken, Males

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• I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

  Blixa Bargeld

  Art, Vienna, Unnoticed

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• Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Tombstone, Past, Long

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• Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers.

  Val McDermid

  Fashion, Thinking, Hands

  Val McDermid (2009). “Clean Break (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 4)”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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• Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Children, Thinking, Hunger

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't.

  Anne Ellis

  Thinking, Long, Use

  Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

  Joanne Greenberg

  Mother, Baby, Gone Away

  Joanne Greenberg (1981). “Season of Delight”, Holt McDougal

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• A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning - or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.

  Anne Beatts

  Friends, Winning, Night

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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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• After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.

  Daphne Oz

  Water, Weight, Body

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• I've been in the sun most of my life. I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous to me.' I'll listen for about twenty minutes and I'll say excuse me, 'Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you're saying it could turn into cancer but it's not cancer?'

  George Hamilton

  Cancer, Doctors, Skins

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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