Tolls Quotes - Page 8

• Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dream, Opportunity, Attachment

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Atheism, Causes, Facts

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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• Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

  Edward Abbey

  Years, Lazy, Sitting

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, University of Arizona Press

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• I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.

  Eileen Claussen

  Jobs, Mean, Fate

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• They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Years, House, Tears

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Enough

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5313, NYU Press

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• It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

  Aristophanes

  Men, Voice, Feminism

  Aristophanes “Lysistrata, or, women for peace!”, Lulu.com

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• Forever only takes its toll on some

  Ryan Adams

  Forever

  Song: Wild Flowers, Album: Gold, 2001

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• The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

  Edgar Guest

  Happiness, Men, Light

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• It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Doe, Strive

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• Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Fall, Future

  Song: Revelation, Album: Blizzard of Ozz

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• For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Stars, Sleep, Men

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.22, Rutgers University Press

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• Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.

  Roger Federer

  Body, Stuff, Wiser

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• I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."

  Eva Mendes

  Heart, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

  Charles Dickens

  Tombstone, Wind, Iron

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.234

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• In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Bells, Revolution, Scene

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• For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Loss, Men, Careers

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations... The mutual fund industry is a colossal failure... resulting from its systematic exploitation of individual investors... as funds extract enormous sums from investors in exchange for providing a shocking disservice... Excessive management fees take their toll, and manager profits dominate fiduciary responsibility.

  David F. Swensen

  Responsibility, Organization, Systematic

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• Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase
  By eating, and it fears to starve, unless
  It still may feed, and all it sees devour;
  Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

  William Davenant

  Ambition, Doe, May

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• Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

  John Masefield

  Truth, Men, Sea

  John Masefield (1946). “Poems”

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• The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to pay for a road you may never drive on. As an alternative, they suggest that if you and I want to get somewhere, we should build a road there and charge people tolls on it. Just try generalizing that. Such a society couldn't survive, and even if it could, it would be so full of terror and hate that any human being would prefer to live in hell.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hate, People, Trying

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.217, Soft Skull Press

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• The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.

  Frank Serpico

  Children, Believe, Fighting

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• I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one's knees and shoulders - no one wants to do it again. I'm 57 and I don't think I'm going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Thinking, Vacation

  "Tom Hanks: type 2 diabetes diagnosis means end of weightier roles" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

  Kinky Friedman

  Texas, Numbers, Want

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• People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the end fate or destiny is seen as taking its toll. People die, to use a commonly used phrase, 'when their number's up'.

  Peter Dickens

  Fate, Exercise, Destiny

  Peter Dickens (1992). “Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory”, p.161, Temple University Press

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