Endless Quotes - Page 18

• Endless money forms the sinews of war.
  [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Form

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• Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
  All is strange, yet nothing new:
  Endless labor all along,
  Endless labor to be wrong:
  Phrase that Time has flung away;
  Uncouth words in disarray,
  Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
  Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.

  Samuel Johnson

  Views, Poetry, Phrases

  Tobias George Smollett, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith (1810). “The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith”, p.113

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• We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

  Bill Vaughan

  Eagles, Bars, May

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• Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

  Daniel Goleman

  School, Boredom, Anxiety

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.157, Bantam

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• I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

  Anna Chancellor

  Jobs, Play, Four

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.

  Julian Johnson

  Facts, Events, Gone

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• Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not seem to decay, at least, not to the point of disintegration and reintegration back into the soil, so the food chain, or the circle of life, seems to end or be short-circuited by their existence. Zombies fulfill the worst potentialities of humans to create a hellish kingdom on earth of endless, sterile repetition and boredom.

  Kim Paffenroth

  Animal, Circles, Boredom

  Kim Paffenroth (2006). “Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth”, p.13, Baylor University Press

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• Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

  Lucy Freeman

  Parent, Unhappy, Unhappiness

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• to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Breathing, Giving

  Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Evil, Desire, Investing

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• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

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• The days of infinity are endless. Its hours cannot be counted or found on a clock. There is no north, south, east, or west. These are just concepts. Infinity is forever, everywhere all at once. And that's all there is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Forever, East

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• Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.

  Amin Maalouf

  Gratitude, Race, Progress

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.412, Macmillan

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• Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Variation, Jazz, Theme

  "Richard Holbrooke: A Consummate Insider Who Left Us Wanting More" by Stephen Kinzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2010.

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• Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Way

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Power of Words”, p.11, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

  Dean Koontz

  Return, Failing, Desperation

  Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson (2007). “Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel”, p.422, Bantam

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• Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

  Andre Agassi

  Stress, Pride, Want

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• And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just more pain. But there's always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it's there.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Pain, Believe, Ribbons

  Meg Wolitzer (2014). “Belzhar”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

  Stephen Fry

  Civilization, World, Destruction

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• The kind of love that God has for us, I think, is of an infinite longing for union, and the kind of love that God wants us to have for him, I think, is of this also endless longing. Now in eros we lose ourselves. I think erotic love transforms us, but it does so only momentarily. It has to be embedded in something much longer, a much bigger narrative called marriage or durable relationship or something like that.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking, Erotic, Unions

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

  William Penn

  Disputes

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.40

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• The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.

  David Icke

  Mean, White, Self

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• But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Night, Light, Dust

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• If, my dear, you seek to slumber;
  Count of stars an endless number;
  If you will continue wakeful;
  Count the drops that make a lakeful;
  Then if vigilance yet above you
  Hover, Count the times I love you;
  And if slumber sill repel you
  Count the times I do not tell you.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Stars, Love You, Numbers

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• When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.

  Charley Harper

  Lying, Artist, Color

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