Already Gone Quotes - Page 2

• If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.

  Walter Bagehot

  Motivational, Gone, Credit

  "The fall of Bear Stearns: Bearing all", www.economist.com. March 5, 2009.

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• Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, Humanity

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the surprise and freshness is already gone. It's so different - in some ways much harder for me.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Mean, Different

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• So, you play today! You don't worry about what's gone, 'cause that's already gone and you can't bring what's gone back. It doesn't happen that way. So, every day's a new day and just play it as it comes. And I turned out to be a singer that was not on dope.

  Anita O'Day

  Dope, Play, Worry

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• While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, War, Lakes

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• It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

  Carole King

  Artist, Generations, Gone

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• The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?

  Al Gore

  Eye, Thinking, Years

  "Gore talks climate change, jobs in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell". www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• The latest report is that Osama bin Laden has shaved his beard, is wearing Western clothes and has had plastic surgery. Isn't that amazing? The guy has made just two videos and he's already gone Hollywood.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Clothes, Guy

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• It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

  Craig L. Rice

  Looks, Gone, Remember

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• No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.

  Fay Weldon

  Giving, Tears, Gone

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• California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted 'til it was already gone

  Zooey Deschanel

  California, Gone, Bigs

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• You don't know what you have until it's not there anymore.

  William Moseley

  Knows

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• I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Gone

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• I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

  Kumar Pallana

  Hustle And Bustle, Long, People

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Together, Gone, World

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.44, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Home, Writing

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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