Gone Quotes - Page 36

• But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Masters, Ifs

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• If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.

  Aaron Gillespie

  Mom, Morning, Hate

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• At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

  Gary David Goldberg

  Cutting, Blessing, Air

  "March Madness and the Successful Sitcom" by Gary David Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2008.

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• This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent writer. You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading--all at the same time.

  Alan Cheuse

  Girl, Book, Reading

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• California has gone insane. According to the latest poll, Arnold Schwarzenegger is leading in California's governor's race by 34 points. You can tell that Governor Gray Davis is worried because he spent all day yesterday working on his pecs.

  Conan O'Brien

  Race, California, Yesterday

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• I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!

  Usher

  Missing, News, Amy

  "Celebrities Tweet Responses to Winehouse's Death" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2011.

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• The latest report is that Osama bin Laden has shaved his beard, is wearing Western clothes and has had plastic surgery. Isn't that amazing? The guy has made just two videos and he's already gone Hollywood.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Clothes, Guy

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• The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

  Allan Bloom

  Men, Expectations, Unity

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself and be nice to myself. I need to keep telling myself that I need to keep wanting something, something nice, something warm[so] I can make other people happy. I can understand other people's pain because I can love even after all that is left of me is gone because I have that strength.

  Daul Kim

  Pain, Nice, People

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• On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.

  Lionel

  Thinking, Careers, Done

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• If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a drought, mere human galls stung by the devil once), then all your joy and serenity is reduced to grinning and bearing it. The fact is, you have got to take the world on your shoulders like Atlas, and "put along" with it. You will do this for an idea's sake, and your success will be in proportion to your devotion to ideas. It may make your back ache occasionally, but you will have the satisfaction of hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Mean, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Knowledge, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.38, Penguin

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• That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Thinking, Inquiry

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.406

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• Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Long, Silence

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• Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

  Mason Cooley

  Adversity, Long, Doe

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• Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Habit, Occasional

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• When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.

  Mason Cooley

  Hope, Home, Self

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• Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

  Mason Cooley

  Joy, Sorrow, Behinds

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• Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

  Mason Cooley

  Opportunity, Luck, Begging

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• Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Pleasure, Sour

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• Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Long, Goes On

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• My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

  Nell Zink

  Zero, Hero, Years

  "Why Cultural Significance Is The Best Job I Ever Had" by Nell Zink, www.buzzfeed.com. June 6, 2015.

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• Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way. We articulate the truth of a situation by carrying the whole experience in the voice and allowing the process to blossom of its own accord. Out of the cross-grain of experience appears a voice that not only sums up the process we have gone through, but allows the soul to recognize in its timbre, the color, texture, and complicated entanglements of being alive.

  David Whyte

  Adversity, Color, Voice

  David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.93, Crown Business

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• Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Strive, Certain

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