Tolls Quotes

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  Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  One Day, Today, Whom The Bell Tolls

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

  Ingrid Bergman

  Girly, Kissing, Noses

  "Fictional character: Maria". "For Whom the Bell Tolls", www.imdb.com. July 14, 1943.

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• There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fascists, Knows, Whom The Bell Tolls

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Death, Hate

  For Whom the Bell Tolls ch. 43 (1940)

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• ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

  John Donne

  Death, Grief, Bereavement

  John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”

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  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne

  Teamwork, Men, Grieving

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

  John Donne

  Death, Book, Men

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

  Thomas Gray

  Wind, Darkness, World

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 1 (1751)

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• When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wedding, Race, Sound

  "Dearly Beloved". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1962.

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  Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Congratulations

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• I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.

  Don King

  Lying, Mean, America

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Death, Peace, Grief

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Book, Men, Islands

  1624 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation no.17.

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• Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Grief, Joy, Poetry

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.178, Knopf

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• We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Long, House

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

  William Allingham

  Book, Men, Hands

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

  Betty Friedan

  Country, Women, Lost Youth

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 14 (1963)

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• The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.

  James Surowiecki

  Lying, Procrastination, Thinking

  "Later". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies.

  Joanna Macy

  Flower, Emotional, Psychics

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• Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Law, Bridges, Justice

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• I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Men, Remains

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2933, Simon and Schuster

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• I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Said, Old Man

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2545, Simon and Schuster

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• Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Horse, Dust

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Winning, Needs

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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