Endless Quotes

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  Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  Erich Fromm

  Effort, Greed, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Inspiration, Funny Relationship

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.455, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

  Jean Vanier

  Love, Forgiveness, Love Is

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• Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Grief, Sadness

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Happiness, Joy

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

  Marion Milner

  Roots, Causes, Obstacles

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.157, Taylor & Francis

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• Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

  Zeno of Citium

  Fate, Goes On, World

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• I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

  Shirley Knight

  Film, Odd, Endless Love

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• I think that music has an endless life.

  Anne Dudley

  Thinking, Musical, Endless Life

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• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Surprise, Expected, Procession

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• I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

  Kate Adie

  Media, Gossip, Literature

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

  Mary Oliver

  Work, Positivity, Attention

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

  Lawrence Durrell

  History, Historical, Way

  1978 In The Listener, 20 Apr.

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• Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

  Jacques Lacan

  Mean, Doe, Obsession

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• I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

  Kate Winslet

  Thinking, Cooking, Chopping

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• Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

  Faith Baldwin

  Men, Light, Oasis

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• With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

  Anna Torv

  Fiction, Possibility, Endless Possibilities

  "‘Fringe’ Friday: Chatting with Saturn Award winner Anna Torv". Interview with Andrew Hanson, latimesblogs.latimes.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

  Balthus

  Art, Painting, Pleasure

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• The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

  Mario Batali

  Passion, Italian, Population

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Memories, Drinking, Journey

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• The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

  Henry Clay

  America, Democracy, United States

  Henry Clay (1863). “Life and times”, p.344

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