Now And Then Quotes - Page 30

• Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Good Man, Goodness

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  War, Quiet, Beats

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• Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

  Christopher Hampton

  Couple, Reading, Thinking

  "My week" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

  Kiran Desai

  Writing, Thinking, Cooking

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• I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

  Len Goodman

  Thinking, Roots, Healthy

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• I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then.

  Billy Preston

  Winning, Evil, Guy

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• Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

  Pico Iyer

  Turning Your Back, And Love, World

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Thinking, Giving

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• My personality is just innately even-keeled. I'm not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I'm not a passionate woman. I don't know, maybe it's my physiological makeup, but I don't like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then.

  Vera Farmiga

  Wine, Makeup, Glasses

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mind, Different, Elements

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

  Charles Dickens

  Wind, East, Conscious

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 6 (Mr Jarndyce)

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• On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Rocks, Wave, Rage

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