Gone Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hope, Melody

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Long

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore.

  Halle Berry

  Jobs, Special, Looks

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• We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

  Warren Christopher

  Bosnians, Force, Obligation

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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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• I have no problem with anyone storming the court. But storm the court after the opposing team has gone to the locker room. Once the opposing team is out of the area, put them all (the fans) on the court.

  Billy Donovan

  Team, Storm, Fans

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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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• It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

  John Wilkins

  Daughter, Gone Away, Feelings

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• There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.

  Alan Greenspan

  Long, Choices, Easy

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• Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

  Shelley Winters

  Acting, Tissues, Bathroom

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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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• 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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• I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be - cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world.

  Brad Pitt

  Luxury, Cost, World

  "Brad Pitt narrates six-hour PBS miniseries". www.today.com. November 1, 2005.

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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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• 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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• Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Flower, Winning, Names

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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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• The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.

  Guru Nanak

  Mother, Husband, Light

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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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• This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Mentor, Age, Generations

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• The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Portraits, Portraiture, Occupation

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