Toiling Quotes - Page 3

• After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Years, Ideas, Hollywood

  "SDCC: Brian K. Vaughan is 'Living His Life 22 Pages at a Time'" by Casey Gilly, www.cbr.com. August 02, 2014.

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. . . . He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. . . . Toiling,-rejoicing,-sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Strong, Morning

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Two, Suffering

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• I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and can only rarely be seen, and has never been reached. And what you see of it, moreover, depends upon the flank of the mountain you stand upon, and how exhausted getting even so far has made you. Virtue lies in looking upwards, toiling upwards, and sometimes joyously leaping from one precarious crag of fact and feeling to the next.

  Fay Weldon

  Lying, Clouds, Feelings

  Fay Weldon (2012). “The President’s Child”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

  Camille Flammarion

  Teacher, Mean, Independent

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• Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Freedom, Struggle, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.160

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• Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.

  Piper Kerman

  Background Noise, Practice, Listening

  Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.166, Spiegel & Grau

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