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“I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.”

People Done Able Deals Gone Havens Reputation Contracts Get It Done Negotiating Professional Work

Author:Keith Rothfus

“I don't like my hair when it's washed - it's fine and limp - but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I've gone through the Amazon or something.”

Gone Hair Fine Amazon Coca Cola

Author:Suki Waterhouse

“The Obama administration has embraced the policies of George W. Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama - $700 billion under Bush, but $4.5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street.”

Interest Gone Streets Policy Wall Billions Administration Plus Zero Loan Bailouts

Author:Jill Stein

“To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.”

Mind Past Effort Existence Gone Events Bleak Wreckage Great Effort

Book:Infernal Devices

Source: Infernal Devices

“You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.”

Gone Century Musician Shame Obligation Hips Allowing Squares New Orleans Classical Music Brahms Classical Musicians Bebop

Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk

“Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.”

Should Gone Music Is Mirrors Abstraction

Author:Max Roach

“It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]”

Should Age Laughing Gone Stage Thee Decent

Author:Horace

“I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.”

Littles Stories Emotion Creativity Gone Blood Tears Like You Hundred Twenties Seeds Extras Kipling

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.”

Gone Doors Horse Wheels Afternoon Leisure Packs Spinning Sunny Bargains Wagons Peddler Sunny Afternoon

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.”

Thinking Men Wells Looks Hard Courage Gone Died Fruit Folks Testament Moses Reap Old Testament Have Courage

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]”

Heart Gone My Heart Heavy

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Way Book Gone Retiring Primitive

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.”

Ends Gone Judgement

Author:Publilius Syrus

“We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.”

Age Lasts Joy Gone Clear Burning Flames Fades Equanimity

Book:War and Laughter

Source: War and Laughter

“The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.”

Men Done Past History Gone Importance Ignorant Women In History

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.”

Thinking Hard Would Be Force Social Interest Wealth Roles Gone Economic Fashion Capitalism Owners Shed Accord Approved Anonymity Adverse Social Systems Connotation Terminology

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.”

Ifs Gone Comedy Percent Okay

Author:Joan Rivers

“But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.”

Children Stills Soul Age Lying Gone Doubt Childhood Drawing Shore Mist Misty

Book:Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

“Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.”

Today Gone Nobility

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.”

Men Firsts Long Fall Heaven Gone Clear Cold Summer Died Rose Woods Golden Hills Autumn Yellow Long Ago Violet Plague Brooks Brightness Sunflower Asters

Author:William C. Bryant

“The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.”

Self Action Gone Flower Essence Selfishness Neglect Nobility

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.”

Ifs Has Beens Gone Poet Wings Originality Feathers Stolen Countrymen Plagiarism Milton Indebted

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.”

Heart Hours Dark Prayer Gone Sorrow Infant Dark Hours

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.”

Knows Looks Littles Light Young Joy Sun Gone Promise Fruit Flourishing Vicissitudes

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.”

Natural Sleep Gone Pride Modesty Never Sleep

Author:Joseph Addison

“Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed.”

Today Lines Sleep Audience Gone Bed Bathroom

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.”

Thinking I Can Reason Today Moving Belief Grief Gone Risk Minutes Tomorrow Right Now Glory Mysterious Tides Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.”

Needs Humans Country Seems Human Beings Pay Talking Gone Style Analysts

Author:Marlene Dietrich

“I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.”

Spiritual Faith Gone Core

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.”

Writing Passion Gone Letters Remains

Book:The letters of Virginia Woolf

Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf

“Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?”

Ifs Children Long Moments Body Today Death Gone Window Logic Prepared Illness Storm Yesterday Broke Why Not Warning Troops Small Child Baffled

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.”

Mind Matter Enough Law Lost Stuff Loses Grief Gone Assuming Careful Minimum Purses Wallets

Author:Jennifer James

“At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.”

Past Perfect History Gone Century Quiet Down And Bottom Dumb

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.”

Gone Successful Century Hero Shapes Slave Boundaries Empires Portions Reign Nineteenth Century Quacks Quackery

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.”

Pleasure Gone Characteristics

Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.”

Knows Feels Writing Long Book Enough Stories Used Gone Five Paper Boxes Pounds Chocolate Candy Detectives Detective Stories Box Of Chocolates

Author:Carolyn Wells

“Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman.”

People World Way Looks Long Made Care Wanted Together Joy Gone Pieces This World Long Time Don't Care Witness Squares Careless Sewing Quilts

Book:Black April: A Novel

Source: Black April: A Novel

“It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.”

Loses Gone Folly Passages Sheer

Author:Juvenal

“Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.”

Looks Hands Religion Courses Names Race Struggle Sun Gone Trouble Glory Labor Strive Endure Bounds Oil Dust Luxury Heat Wicked Covered Crowns Showers Toil Contests Spectators Joyous

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.”

Should Believe Children Two Life Is I Believe Gone Emotional Structure Fixed Heirs Heredity Emotional Life Two Lives

Author:Clarence Darrow

“Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.”

Ifs Humans America Joy Individual Nations Wealth Poor United States Gone Crime Army Homeless Prey Filth Soulless Squalor

Author:Emma Goldman

“Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.”

Art Sound Gone Farewell

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author

“The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.”

Gone Flower Fruit

Author:Alexander Pope

“Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.”

Today Gone Doubt Yesterday No Doubt Yesterday Is Gone

Author:Pablo Neruda

“It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.”

Use Gone Doors Horse Closing Barns

Author:John Heywood

“And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.”

Book:Gebir, Count Julian: And Other Poems

Source: Gebir, Count Julian: And Other Poems

“We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.”

Heart Left Wish Imagination Poor Half Gone Instant Shutters

Book:Pericles and Aspasia

Source: Pericles and Aspasia

“For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.”

Way Years Hands Law Moral Gone Taken Civilization Thousand Intellectual Bible Species Thousand Years Hand In Hand Cultivation

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.”

Should May Helping Gone Knowing Unique Tragedy Remembered Commonplace

Book:Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.”

Thinking Two Feelings Force Quality Enemy Economy Gone Virtue Share Century Expression Habit Regard Chiefs Barren Verge Closeness Thrift Expression Of Feeling

Author:Rebecca Harding Davis