Gone Quotes - Page 15

• No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Insecurity, Underestimate

  Dan Savage (2002). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America”, E P Dutton

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• Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.

  Kristen Stewart

  Real, Heart, Broken

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• Hell is gone and heaven's here,there's nothing left for you to fear.

  Robbie Williams

  Heaven, Hell, Left

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2015

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• I was shocked when they told me congratulations, you won, that's the good news. Then the bad news is that you have six battles next week. That was a bit of a shocker. I was exhausted. And I had Chopped shooting that same week. I didn't have a sous chef lined up; I thought that was bad karma to try to think ahead. So I scrambled. I scrambled the jets, took off and we bombed our target. I think it's gone well.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Karma, Congratulations, Thinking

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• If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.

  Roger Zelazny

  Lying, Names, Long

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• The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

  Ivan Panin

  Lightning, Thunder, Danger

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• In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Loss, Thinking, Numbers

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• It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.

  Barry Long

  Truth, Mind, Littles

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

  Simon Blackburn

  Sweat, Essentials, Ethics

  Simon Blackburn (2003). “Ethics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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• Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

  Ihara Saikaku

  People, Simplicity, Today

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book I, ch. 4), 1688.

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• We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Incentives, Spirit, Plateaus

  "Of God and Men". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1960.

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• Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

  Gregory Maguire

  Loss, Gorgeous

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• It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

  Paul Scofield

  Kings, Self, Want

  "Paul Scofield: Oscar-winning actor whose phenomenal range was unmatched in his generation" by Alan Strachan, www.independent.co.uk. March 21, 2008.

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• My work embodies little visions of the great intangible. ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.

  Marsden Hartley

  Mad, Heaven, Vision

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 25, 1988.

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• My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

  Laura Nyro

  Children, Heaven, Dying

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• Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on...

  Laura Nyro

  Children, Our World, Long

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• The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control.

  David Malpass

  Thinking, Government, Way

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• I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.

  Pierre Coupey

  Art, Responsibility, Thinking

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• For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.

  Catherine Yass

  People, Finals, Looks

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• In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

  Richard Laymon

  Book, Adventure, Fiction

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• Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share.

  Gregory Orr

  Strong, Moving, Knowing

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• The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.

  Tim Lebbon

  Past, Echoes, Space

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• Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Flower, Wind, Flesh

  Lancelot Andrewes (1861). “The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes: Translated from the Greek and Arranged Anew”, p.138

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Home, Mirrors

  Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Visitor”, p.8, Counterpoint

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• Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?

  David Harvey

  Mean, Ideas, Giving

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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