Gone Quotes - Page 12

• If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Nuts, Insanity

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• Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Careless

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.97, e-artnow

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• Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

  Robert Burns

  Beauty, Fading, Seasons

  Robert Burns (1821). “The Caledonian Musical Museum: Being a Collection of the Best Songs, Ancient and Modern”, p.121

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• The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

  Herman Melville

  Giving, Promise, Way

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.148

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• Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beauty, Dream, Art

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.366

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• The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Blue, Dwelling

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1326, Delphi Classics

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• Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Humorous, Creating

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.

  Robertson Davies

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

  Paul Simon

  New York, Home, Winter

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

  Neil Gaiman

  Knowledge, Two, Style

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• The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

  Matthew Arnold

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 57

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• I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken

  Bob Dylan

  Girl, Taken, Skins

  Song: Ballad in Plain D, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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• It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

  Elmore Leonard

  Romantic Love, Looks, Too Late

  "Out of Sight". Book by Elmore Leonard, 1996.

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• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  Barack Obama

  War, Men, Winning

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction.

  Donald A. Norman

  Powerful, Effort, Littles

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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• I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.

  Gloria Estefan

  Thinking, Long, Doubt

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• I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Years, Psychics, Research

  Psychic News # 4001, April 18, 2009.

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• Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Mad, Fancy

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Opportunity, Forever, Bugs

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

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• Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  War, Fighting, Victory

  Interview with James Cameron, Picture Post, October 28, 1950.

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• Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Tears, Dew

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.55

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• A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.

  Margaret Mead

  Philosophy, Giving, Choices

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Years, Heaven, Tears

  Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.55

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• I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Trying, Earth

  "Mother nature (part two)". Interview with Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.

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