Gone Quotes - Page 34

• I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Pieces, Monk

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• Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, People, Parent

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• Children, behold the Chimpanzee:
  He sits on the ancestral tree
  From which we sprang in ages gone.

  Oliver Herford

  Children, Tree, Age

  Oliver Herford (2017). “This Giddy Globe”, p.65, Litres

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• It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

  Max Beerbohm

  Taken, Matter, Facts

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.89, New York Review of Books

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• Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Death, Dying

  Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays”, p.328, Grove Press

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• Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Loneliness, Despair

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.

  Dean Potter

  Fall, Mean, Essence

  "Dean Potter, in his own words: I dream of feathers sprouting on my arms", www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2015.

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• We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.

  Johan Huizinga

  War, Europe, History

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• The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.

  Charles Darwin

  Feet, Land, Water

  Charles Darwin (1840). “Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Varoius Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy from 1832 to 1836 by Charles Darwin”, p.557

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• Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?

  Oswald Chambers

  Reality, Praying, Moments

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.449, Discovery House

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• Let's face it, Fox News, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the public that Hillary Clinton was born in Kenya.

  Barack Obama

  Missing, News, Kenya

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• There's nothing like going on with a thing.

  Anthony Trollope

  Wisdom, Perseverance

  Anthony Trollope (1870). “The Vicar of Bullhampton”, p.330

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• Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, People, Age

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.3, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Light threatens, is active, is gone,
  so it is with a song.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Music, Song, Light

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.401, New Directions Publishing

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• If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Responsibility, Adults

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• A woman who'd lost her first son
  consoled us with an angel gone ahead
  to pray for our family--
  gone into that sky
  seeking oxygen,
  gone into autopsy

  Michael S. Harper

  Angel, Son, Oxygen

  Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.197, University of Illinois Press

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• Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.

  Bruce L. Shelley

  Christian, Religious, America

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• There are certain stereotypes that are offensive. Some of them don't worry me, though. For instance, I have always thought that Mammy character in Gone with the Wind was mighty funny. And I just loved "Amos 'n' Andy" on the radio. So you see, I have enough confidence in myself that those things did not bother me. I could laugh.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Character, Wind, Laughing

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.16, Kodansha America

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• Pity the planet, all joy gone
  from this sweet volcanic cone

  Robert Lowell

  Sweet, Joy, Earth

  Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.188, University of Michigan Press

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• People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

  Taylor Swift

  Goodbye, People, Forever

  Song: All You Had To Do Was Stay, Album: 1989

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• Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.

  Anne Cassidy

  Children, Thinking, Giving

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• [F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Believe, Men

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• I have achieved what I set out to achieve when I took over the leadership. The Greens have gone from strength to strength with solid election results and a growing, engaged party membership.

  Christine Milne

  Party, Election Results, Growing

  "Richard Di Natale elected unopposed as new Greens leader after Christine Milne resigns - as it happened" by Daniel Hurst, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2015.

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• We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.

  Alexander Theroux

  Time, Memories, Sadness

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• You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn't do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all ofus worry whether we should have done something differently than we did.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Home, Should Have

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