Gone Quotes - Page 27

• It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

  Craig L. Rice

  Looks, Remember, Difficult

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• I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

  Humphry Davy

  Burdens Of Life, Land, Brain

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• each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

  Eloise Lownsbery

  Age, Generations, Shoulders

  Eloise Lownsbery (1931). “Out of the Flame”

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• It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Ideas, Mad, Paper

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• I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.

  Margaret Morse Nice

  Baby, Caring, Years

  Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover”, p.41, Dundurn

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• The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.

  Henriette Mantel

  Children, Kids, Long

  Henriette Mantel (2013). “No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood”, p.14, Seal Press

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• to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself.

  Margaret Campbell Barnes

  Desolation, Oneself, Loses

  Margaret Campbell Barnes (1949). “Brief Gaudy Hour: A Novel of Anne Boleyn”, London : Macdonald

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• Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality, for which there was no precedent and of which there was, as yet, no other example.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Facts, Sides

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• the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of the doctrine has noted, the word has long since ceased to mean, in ecclesial debates, what it meant for Paul himself - which is confusing, since the debates have gone on referring to Paul as though he was in fact talking about what they want to talk about. It is as though the greengrocer treated you to a long discussion of how onions are grown, and how best to cook with them, when what you had asked was how much he would charge for three of them.

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, Talking, Careers

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• With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

  Hope Solo

  Growing Up, Years, Mature

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• The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

  Isaac Hayes

  Rapper, Influence, Asks

  "Issac Hayes more than 'Shaft'", www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 11, 2008.

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• My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone.

  Don Henley

  Summer, Strong, Boys

  Song: The Boys of Summer, Album: Building the Perfect Beast

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• As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

  Tom Wopat

  Song, Voice, Way

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• I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.

  Stephen Lang

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  Rani Mukerji

  Girl, Writing, Ideas

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• If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless.

  Alice Waters

  Oil, Tuesday, Tomatoes

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• In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mean, Past, Rights

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• For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Years, Tree, Littles

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

  Henry George

  Land, California, Evil

  Henry George (1871). “Our Land and Land Policy, National and State”, p.13

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• For 14 years no PM had gone to Jammu and Kashmir. Atal ji changed that and went to Jammu and Kashmir. He gave 3 Mantas- Insaniyat, Jamhuriat and Kashmiriyat (Humanity, democracy and J&K). We aspire to walk on that path

  Narendra Modi

  Years, Pms, Humanity

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• I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Obscurity, Rich, Fame

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• I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone.

  Cinda Williams Chima

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• When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.

  Joan M. Drury

  Parent, Lasts, Chance

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• [On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Retirement, Money, Saving

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• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  Ian Hislop

  Mother, Witty, Clever

  "Ian Hislop: satirist in chief". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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