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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• The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Education, Thinking, Firsts

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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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• Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Weather, Heaven, Storm

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.175

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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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• 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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• I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Fighting, Thinking

  "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.

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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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• I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

  William Dampier

  Rain, Fields, Showers

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.92, tredition

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• I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Vampire, Trends, Way

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• It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life

  Carl Sandburg

  Loneliness, Men, Rocks

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• Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

  Alan Vega

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

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