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“I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.”

“Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.”

Opportunity Gone Skills Comfortable Solo Jam Cruise

Author:John Oates

“In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.”

War States Gone Absolutes Nationalism Length Dictatorship Cult Militant Glorification Totalitarian State

Author:Arthur Henderson

“My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.”

Years Has Beens Parent Gone Standing Eternity Folks

Author:Tony Parsons

“Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.”

Kind Ends Matter Care Left Love Is Gone Illusion Okay Exciting Passionate Fades Being In Love Kinds Of Love Cares About Someone

Book:Man and Boy: A Novel

Source: Man and Boy: A Novel

“Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.”

Used Gone Keys Used To Be Atoms Vibrations

Book:Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers

Source: Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers

“My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.”

World Life Humans Wells War Prayer Animal Gone Realization War Of The Worlds Sanctity World War One Sanctity Of Life

Author:Christopher Morley

“Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.”

Stills Lasts Dies Gone Colour Gray Parting Dolphins

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.”

Dream Gone Greece Athens

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.”

Love Faith Rooms Gone Fog

Author:Graham Greene

“The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.”

Should Long Gone Focus Player Summer Long Time Call Me Senior Sportsmanship

Author:Dean Smith

“I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.”

People Knows Want Feels Stories Gone Possibility Comfortable Infinite Grateful Be Grateful Infinite Possibilities

Author:Robin Roberts

“In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.”

World Gone Bears Standing Sanity Comforting Dependable Teddy Bear Hunk Uncomplicated

Author:Pam Brown

“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

“The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.”

Sometimes Earth America Names Liberty Gone Please Equal Vain Curse Sigh Stamps Decree Foam Liberty And Equality

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.”

Wanted Actors Gone Journey Goes On Directors African American Convince Allowing Reluctant Life Journey

Author:Lee Grant

“It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.”

Home Rooms Gone Alcohol Drawing Faculty Magnificent Alcoholism Sophistication Departed

Author:James Thurber

“Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.”

World Dream Winning Gone Gold Drunk Jail Hung Olympics Medal Gave Up Gold Medals Top Of The World

Author:Dan O'Brien

“If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.”

Ifs Sin Gone Weapons Mouths Crosses Satan Covered Fangs Gum

Author:John Piper

“My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since.”

Firsts Jobs Gone Magic Worst Hated Parks Amusement Virginia Amusement Parks

Author:Danny McBride

“At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.”

Way Believe Soul Moments Young Lying Winning Speak I Believe Lord Gone Stage Kings Hero Worship Brave That Moment Altars Tombs Hero Worship Brave Souls

Book:Tom Brown's School Days

Source: Tom Brown's School Days

“Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.”

Should Long Home Gone Should Have Hearing Senate Committees Colleagues Naps

Author:Leverett Saltonstall

“Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.”

Feels Play Dream Able Guy Given Audience Gone Wonderful Blessing Band Expectations My Family My Friendship Many Blessings

Author:Trey Anastasio

“We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Universe.”

Heart Children Purpose Universe Left Accepting Gone Roots Structure Chaos Corruption Tides Decay Peers Bleakness

Author:Peter Atkins

“When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!”

Book Gone Masters Forgotten Preacher Your Favorite

Author:John Piper

“The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling or failing to find adequate time with their families. We are in a perpetual hurry-constantly rushing from one activity to another, with little understanding of where all this activity is leading us. . . . The world has gone and got itself in an awful rush, to whose benefit I do not know. We are too busy for our own good. We need to slow down. Our lifestyles are destroying us. The worst part is, we are rushing east in search of a sunset.”

“It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.”

Different Term Views Gone Development Reactions Philosophic Hegel One Sided

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.”

Ifs Men World Writing Littles War Young Fiction Known Gone Effects Young Man Writing Fiction Iliad

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Looks Lasts Stars Stuff Rooms Wonder Gone Crazy Europe Red Distance Corners My Way Movie Star Carpet Glamour Mansions Red Carpet Bartender

Author:Andre Dubus

“Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead us to goodness, beauty, strength and health? Where are those who utter heartwarming words, who will lead us out of the wilderness? Our homes are gone and the nation is destroyed, yet we have no Jeremiah crying out his last sad song to the world and to posterity.”

World Home Lasts Spirit Song Nations Voice Gone Cry Hero Goodness Raises Destroyed Warrior Wilderness Posterity Heartwarming Sad Song Jeremiah

Author:Lu Xun

“I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.”

Hands Situation Gone Impossible Periods Various Superhero Tricky

Author:John Carpenter

“I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.”

Want Film Careers Gone

Author:Matthew Fox

“As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.”

Ifs Looks Done Care School Given Sleep Pay Wonder Gone College Basketball High School My Family Bills Take Care Coaching If I Could Contracts Olympics Broadcasting

Author:Doug Collins

“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Enjoy Interesting Gone Strange Periods Creating Photograph Atmosphere Fascinating Slips Surreal Most Interesting Ambience

Author:Kate Atkinson

“If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back.”

Ifs Inspirational Gone Thrill

Author:Meat Loaf

“When you're gone I can go running though the house screaming and no one will ever hear me.”

I Can Running House Gone Honesty

Author:Michael Johnson

“I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.”

Ifs Knows Long Night Interest Gone Sea Ocean Bird Distance Get Away Length Where You Are Squares Salt Horns Dilemma Priceless Serpent Hippopotamus

Book:Many Moons

Source: Many Moons

“I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.”

Thinking Knows World Feels Gone Mad Passing Passings Bubbles Passing Through

Author:Chris Lowe

“I live a very normal life. I have friends, and I've always gone to school. The part that's not normal is that I've been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it's completely normal to me.”

School Gone Months Normal Normal Life

Author:Ashley Olsen

“Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.”

Ifs Hard Whole Gone Player College Hard Work Soccer Atmosphere Decent Chairs Olympics Medal Athletic Feats

Author:Mark Zupan

“The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.”

Gone Environment Destroying Elephants Tigers Sad Things Rest Of Life Pandas Bluebird Destroying The Environment

Author:Ted Turner

“Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?”

Men Firsts Soul Whole Dream Might Goal Race Gone Glory Ancient Greece August Athens Athena

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.”

Heart Past Gone Youth Fades Cheeks Smooth Blushing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.”

Knows Eye Hours Gone Mines Travel Glad Grieving Shore

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?”

Firsts Goal Steps Gone Progress First Steps

Author:Michael Gerber

“Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.”

Lost Gone Records Written Rocks Example Lessons Flow Sand Over It Instruction Tides

Author:William Ellery Channing

“Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.”

Life Humans Moving Hours Gone Movement Human Life Subtle Shade Cunning Slides Fugitive Stealth

Book:The dramatic works of Edward Young

Source: The dramatic works of Edward Young

“When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes

“Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.”

Made Gone Crazy Performances Shining Stanley Best Performance

Author:Jonah Hill

“The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.”

People Men Way Feels Trying Talking Sun Gone Week Loneliness Baby Comfort Meat Hospitals Combat Carriages Saloons

Book:My Ears Are Bent

Source: My Ears Are Bent

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