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“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

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Author:Willa Cather

“That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.”

Years Process One Thing Goes On Commitment Frustrating

Author:Thomas Lennon

“[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.”

Years Humans Mean Made Science Five Food Goes On Industry Circumstances Increase Twenties Faster Five Years Twenty Five Ratios Subsistence

Author:Thomas Malthus

“O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!”

Want Giving Years I Can Land Figures Taught Masters Goes On Ten Seasons Give Me Dancing Dear Caught Dull Something New Bores Advancing Uniformity Tripping

Author:Thomas Haynes Bayly

“We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.”

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Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh

“The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play bells for only one year, but many of them go on to play at local churches.”

Ifs Years May I Can Play Kids Church Teach Break Goes On Investment Very Good Locals Bells Basics Local Church

Author:Dan Gable

“We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely.”

World Years May War Ends Might America Form Democracy Conditions Havens Goes On Elements Judgment Series Winter Confused Fifty Get Away Length Accurate Improbable

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.”

Knows Way Giving Years Made Acting Wife Goes On Cost Giving Up Eternal Married Performances Twenties My Wife Theatre Singers Lasting Expenses Opera Spectators Wagner Opera Singers

Book:The Waltz of the Toreadors

Source: The Waltz of the Toreadors

“When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.”

Years Mistake Situation Goes On Mad Bounds Miserable Making Mistakes

Author:Lucille Ball

“The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.”

Years Kind Mean Jobs Mistake Goes On Management Managers Making Mistakes Remarkable

Author:Akio Morita

“Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep going you have to renew. Wouldn't that be kind of genius? It would force you both to look at the relationship, and if it's not working, the marriage would expire so you could go on your merry way, or on the positive side of it, you could look at each other and say we really want to renew. What a way to keep it fresh!!”

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Author:Jenny McCarthy

“But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution.”

People Years Littles Lost Hours Accepting Special Revolution Goes On Blue Suits Idiot Unbearable Impatience Another Day Another Year

Author:Neal Ascherson

“I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.”

Thinking Years Kind Long I Can Different Bigs Goes On Right Now Different Kinds Topics Seafood Chunks

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.”

Years Kind Stills Self Home Dream Sleep Consciousness Goes On Your Dreams Coming Home Jet Lag Jet Lag

Book:Animal Dreams: A Novel

Source: Animal Dreams: A Novel

“Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.”

Feels Years Soul Spirituality Grows Deals Progress Goes On Higher Difficulty Deeper Conquer Acquire Faculty Worth Living Acquisition Unfolding Life Worth Living Descending

Book:Self-culture, lectures

Source: Self-culture, lectures

“I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.”

Years Moments Running Lasts Fun Stuff Bits Week Stage Goes On Snow Brands Variety Last Year Virgins Handful Brand New Spanking

Author:Brian Regan

“Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way." If this goes on day after day after day, year after year, month after month, it would understandable for God to say, "I've given you ten trillion tries. You're finished." But it's not. So in that sense, His grace is always surprising, never ceases to be amazing and His mercy is remarkably outrageous.”

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mailboxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. ... If there were woman all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be.”

Ifs Years Made Waiting Journey Hair Goes On One Day Letters Busy Starting Grass Gray Mailboxes

Author:Alice Munro

“I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. And so I find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. But If you get to down it, look, I`m going to root for someone, I`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.”

Ifs Thinking Years Looks Country Games Force Stuff Term Wonderful Football Goes On Politician Years Ago Roots Passionate Fascinating Gave Up Football Game

Author:Norman Mailer

“I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.”

Thinking Years Dream Wonderful Goes On Diets Cheer Pizza

Author:George Wendt

“After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.”

Years Three Actors Goes On Guts Three Years Auditions

Author:Gale Harold

“I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.”

Years Persons Stills Sides Rooms Stage Goes On Directors Ten Lunch Auditions Casting Skip Best Person Casting Directors

Author:Carly Schroeder

“I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I dont necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.”

Want Years Heart Whole Wanted Next Easy Goes On Stones Mindset Bless Rolling Touring Rolling Stones Ruts Old Things Same Old Thing

Author:Paul Weller

“You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.”

Knows Years Dream Rooms Wonderful Goes On Clothes Picks Hollywood Dressings Dressing Rooms Wonderful Places

Author:Larry Hagman

“I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people”

People Ifs Years Littles Different Done Play Shows Remember Used Night Parent Class Groups Rocks Goes On Lows Mad Singers Educated Knees If I Could Saturday Saturday Night Disapproving

Author:Mick Jagger

“Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.”

Men Years Stills Left Religious Teaching Childhood Goes On Imaging

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.”

Years Hard Half New York Goes On

Author:Aziz Ansari

“Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.”

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Author:Fanny Burney

“A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.”

“I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.”

“He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.”

Years Stills House Goes On Office Raises Disappointment Warm Ruins Former Ashes Barren Good Office

Author:Seneca the Younger

“as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.”

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Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“We need to start acting like a team, focus on winning and not worry about all of the other stuff that goes on. We lost our focus last year. We worried about who was being hired, who was being fired. That's got to change. We don't need any more finger pointing. We need to act like a team.”

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Author:Albert Belle

“Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.”

Years Different Done Form Courses Goes On Internet Directors

Author:David Cronenberg

“The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.”

Years Firsts Ends Shows Problem Running Water Seeing Sea Huge Goes On Civilization Flow Rivers Environmental China Decades Chinese Dry Yellow Cradle Shortage

Author:Lester R. Brown

“I take around 60 trips a year for business so I can't say that I enjoy the act of travelling itself. I wish I could be transported to my destination without having to go on the journey to get there.”

Years I Can Wish Enjoy Journey Goes On Destination

Author:Maurice Levy

“A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.”

Years Beautiful Generations Color Poet Flower Goes On Scientist Available Billions Breeding Pollen

Author:George M. Church

“I think the secret is to understand that you still want to be part of the game. To do so, you have to forget all the victories you've managed to get in the previous years and have a great humility. You also need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home.”

“Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.”

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Author:Stephen King

“It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.”

“I'm pretty down to earth, I always have been and though I am on a much different path than most 25 year olds, I feel like I have a bit of a double life. We will go on tour for weeks at a time, but when I come home, I feel like I am picking up where I left off.”

Feels Years Has Beens Different Home Earth Left Bits Path Week Goes On Coming Home Down To Earth Different Paths Double Life

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.”

Knows Trying Years Real Guy Hours Brain Know How Doubt Week Talent Television Goes On Creating Scientist Cancer Fifty Tobacco Real Talent

Author:Robert Kenner

“If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.”

Ifs Years Said Hands Father Goes On Dad

Author:Chris Robinson

“Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.”

Thinking Years Goes On Confidence Experts

Book:John Osborne Plays 1: Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu

Source: John Osborne Plays 1: Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu

“There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.”

Knows Years Happens School Fire Teacher Teaching Goes On Losing Glory Coaches Accountability Public School School System

Author:Ross Perot

“I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are killed every year and there is no redress for it. We will fight until the mines are made secure and human life valued more than props. Look things in the face. Don't' fear a governor; don't fear anybody. You pay the governor; he has the right to protect you. You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth, so I say, let the fight go on; if nobody else will keep on, I will.”

“Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.”

People Want Years Kids Girl Audience Saws Happened Crazy Goes On Horror Bigger Shoes Terror Theatre Reactions Rays Scream Airplane September Teenage Orange Gang September 11 Teenage Girl Date Movie

Author:Eli Roth

“As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.”

Years Faces Wish White Hair Goes On Terrible Prepared Shock Be Prepared Getting Old Getting Older Eighteen Wrinkles White Hair

Author:Audrey Hepburn

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