Gone Quotes - Page 4

• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

  Mick Jagger

  Fleeting, Fluttering, Elusive

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• The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Want, Reason, Cricket

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• The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

  Richard Linklater

  Interesting, Able, Film

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Courage, Wind, Reputation

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sorry, Wind, Jail

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• What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .

  Steve Ballmer

  Business, Years, People

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• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

  Jacques Chirac

  Hands, Long, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

  Russell Lynes

  Names, Live For Today, Architecture

  Russell Lynes (1963). “The Domesticated Americans”, New York : Harper

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• Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

  Owen Chamberlain

  Marijuana, Generations, Scientist

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• Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

  John Ciardi

  Modern Life, Rich, Ancestor

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• Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone.

  Harriet Morgan

  Sorry, Pain, Mean

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• The light of a whole life dies When love is gone.

  Francis William Bourdillon

  Love Is, Light, Whole Life

  1878 Among the Flowers,'Light'. 0 See Lyly 523:12.

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• Gone, but not forgotten.

  Phillip Margolin

  Losing A Loved One, Forgotten, Loved Ones

  Phillip Margolin (2012). “Gone, But Not Forgotten”, p.8, Doubleday

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• Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

  Mary Schmich

  Missing, Knees, Be Kind

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

  Rumi

  Grieving, Joy, Forever

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• The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Return, Individualism, Combination

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Reality, Two, Civilization

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• I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Past, Rivers, House

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• There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.

  Alan Greenspan

  Long, Choices, Easy

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• If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Shoes, Want, Pairs

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• Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

  Shelley Winters

  Acting, Tissues, Bathroom

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