Tolls Quotes - Page 7

• I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Emotional, Careers, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.

  Ida Tarbell

  Sports, Peace, War

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.

  Susan Sarandon

  Taken, Choices, Age

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• Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, War, Acceptance

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• Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

  Robert Breault

  Air, Smell, Clothes

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• Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and abundant technological know-how, in which some terrorists clearly state their intention to inflict catastrophic casualties. Were such an attack to occur, it would not only cause widespread death and destruction, but would stagger the world economy... [creating] a second death toll throughout the developing world.

  Kofi Annan

  Nuclear Terrorism, Creating, Wish

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• Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old
  Changes of the time take the toll.

  Damian Marley

  Evil, Everyday, Flesh

  Song: It Was Written

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• In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.

  Andre Ward

  Giving Up, Motivation, School

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• I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

  Matt LeBlanc

  People, Half, Comedy

  "Matt LeBlanc flies solo". "Dateline" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2004.

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• I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

  Nina Dobrev

  Real, Character, Emotional

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• Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dream, Opportunity, Attachment

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• Talking payes no toll.

  George Herbert

  Talking

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.340

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• Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

  Michael Douglas

  Energy, Chemotherapy, Difficult

  "Michael Douglas: My cancer battle". www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2010.

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• There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

  Sax Rohmer

  Anticipation, Nervous, States

  Sax Rohmer (2013). “The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.

  Roger Federer

  Body, Stuff, Wiser

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• For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Loss, Men, Careers

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Bells, Revolution, Scene

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• At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

  Charles Dickens

  Tombstone, Wind, Iron

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.234

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• I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."

  Eva Mendes

  Heart, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Stars, Sleep, Men

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.22, Rutgers University Press

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• Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations... The mutual fund industry is a colossal failure... resulting from its systematic exploitation of individual investors... as funds extract enormous sums from investors in exchange for providing a shocking disservice... Excessive management fees take their toll, and manager profits dominate fiduciary responsibility.

  David F. Swensen

  Responsibility, Organization, Systematic

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• Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase
  By eating, and it fears to starve, unless
  It still may feed, and all it sees devour;
  Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

  William Davenant

  Ambition, Doe, May

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• Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Cities, Air

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• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  Carl Honore

  Art, Eating Well, Surfing

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• I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

  Eric Dickerson

  Sports, Pain, Taken

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