Goes On Quotes - Page 20

• This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

  Mary Balogh

  Hurt, Heart, Break Even

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.170, Hachette UK

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• If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humble, Understanding, Monsters

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Space, May, Want

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• Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Normalcy, Fragile

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• …I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sorry, Character, Aunt

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.569, e-artnow

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• I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Believe, Together, Have Faith

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• if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true

  Meindert DeJong

  Dream, Way, Firsts

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• And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

  Dr. Seuss

  Scare, Want, Pants

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.

  Christine Feehan

  I Can

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• All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Adventure, Lasts

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

  Libba Bray

  Love You, Thinking, Care

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.691, Delacorte Press

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mistake, Behinds, Our Lives

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• The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.

  Thomas Friedman

  Together, Needs, Safari

  Thomas L. Friedman (2009). “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

  Sylvia Plath

  Happiness, Sweet, Tired

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.3, Anchor

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• Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Feet, Relax

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• Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Good Person, Should

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• Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.

  Demi Lovato

  Glasses, Tears, Trying

  Song: Skyscraper, 2011

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• Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

  Stephen King

  Ninety Eight, People, Percent

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.

  Rachel Cohn

  Block, Nice, Lying

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• And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

  Tom Robbins

  Sublime, Tasks, World

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• In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  War, Lying, Fighting

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• I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Race, Names

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• Are you high? Why are you never wearing a shirt?" "I sleep naked," Cole said. He put both milk and sugar in my coffee. "As the day goes on, I put on more and more clothing. You should've come over an hour ago.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Coffee, Sleep, Naked

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.784, Scholastic Inc.

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• But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Answers, Occupation

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