Gone Quotes - Page 45

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

You may be gone but you're never over.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.

While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.

I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.

America went into Iraq. We shouldn't have gone into Iraq. We shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. The world is a total mess.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.

I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

I don't know about the baby, but I will be interested to see, like anyone who's a fan of the show [how it's resolved]," he said, and then joked, "They'll have to resolve me while I'm not there, so I hope they don't say, 'Oh yeah, Mulder's gone, what an asshole. He had a baby with me, he kissed me and then he left.'