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“Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”

Inspirational Wisdom Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Integrity Worthy Worthwhile Parting Wise Man Once Said

Author:Ovid

“Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!”

Author:John Dryden

“Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.”

Men Sea Parting Drifting Driftwood

Book:Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…

Source: Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…

“But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.”

Eye Thousand Rose Lips Delight Tongue Vain Invites Boots Cheeks Delay June Parting Allure Wooing

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

“I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.”

Thinking Needs Feels Cutting Speech Feel Good Parting Very Famous

Author:Tom Stoppard

“It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.”

Thinking Knows Writing Parting

Book:Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

“Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.”

Training Autumn Parting Lingering

Author:Philip Larkin

“I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military.”

Doe Stills Humor Hands Funny Easy Behinds Military Equal Army Legs Ease Relax Parting Bros Uptight Behind My Back

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.”

Hands Shoulders Parting Salute

Author:Joan Didion

“I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.”

Mind Fields Raised Commerce Corn Parting

Author:John Constable

“I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.”

Want Stills Shows Would Be Form Feet Hungry Survivor Show Business Parting Minus Show Biz

Author:Albert Brooks

“I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.”

Young Girl Interesting Sophisticated Outstanding Parting

Author:Norma Shearer

“All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police”

Needs Feels Doe Happens Police Parting

Author:Chris Patten

“I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.”

Writing Problem Father Born Taught Mad London Driven Suspects Parting Schooling Dyslexic

Author:Tanith Lee

“some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .”

Actors Roles Personality Depends Parting Metamorphosis

Author:Ben Gazzara

“It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action”

Action Force Essentials Offensive Parting Congo Halt

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.”

States School Process Levels United United States College Basketball High School Selection Parting

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more important ,than the others , by reason of the importance of the qualities of each for the others.”

Important Reason Quality Importance Seven Kingdoms Staff Parting Constituents Containing Asceticism

Author:Guru Nanak

“We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic.”

Products Insects Parting County Arizona Inspection

Author:Carl E. Olson

“I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.”

Great Things Parting

Author:Aidan Quinn

“Message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.”

Knows Two Policy Messages Coins Parting

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.”

Way America Class Becoming Performances Versions Southern Working Class Parting Redneck

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.”

Thinking Moving Used Chance Greater Player Seven Coaches Parting Breakdown Ucla Veracity Moving Parts

Author:Skip Prosser

“I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.”

People Made Done Acting Filmmaker Filmmaking Parting Good Acting

Author:Sam Mendes

“I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.”

Years Mean Serious Silly Jane Parting

Author:Cleo Moore

“There is a future for the auto parts industry, but it needs a consolidation and a rationalization of geography in that most suppliers have facilities in the U.S., although most of their customers are overseas.”

Needs Industry Customers Facility Geography Parting Suppliers Consolidation

Author:Wilbur Ross

“I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet.”

Thinking Problem Weapons Parting Cargo Biological Weapons

Author:Jay Rockefeller

“You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.”

Real California Assets Bubbles Parting Suburbs

Author:Charlie Munger

“But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.”

Thinking Interesting London Parting Appointments

Author:Dinah Sheridan

“Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.”

Pain Faces Views Sadness Parting

Author:Edward George, Baron George

“Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?”

Ifs Soul Dream Path Diverse Parting Intervals Hurrying

Author:Edward George, Baron George

“When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody”

World Heart Lying Let Me Silent Forgotten Corners Melody Parting Worlds Apart

Author:Charles Hamilton Aide

“I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.”

Knows Blame Sorry These Days Parting I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“I must have Haley Joel Osment as my agent, because he only sees dead parts”

Agents Parting Haley

Author:Brenda Strong

“All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.”

Want Different Done Figures Authority Want Something Parting Authority Figures

Author:Yaphet Kotto

“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”

Ifs Knows Needs Death Heaven Hell Events Huge Thirds Encouragement Remains Immortality Pet Hopeless Parting

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.”

Hands Seems Forever Promise Meetings Parting Arriving Vanishing Departing

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.”

Knows Wells Pain Past Beautiful Death Memories Bears Comfort Remains Wounds Thank God Parting Hope For The Future Past Memories Beautiful Memories

Author:Max Muller

“Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.”

Persons States Body Purpose Research Organization Institutions Medical Boards Approval Parting Parts Of The Body Medical Education Notify

Author:Charlie Crist

“Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.”

Should Littles Failing Prove Spring Bird Lays Farewell Cheerful Everlasting Parting Robins Boon Harbinger Requiem

Author:William Wordsworth

“Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.”

Source: The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. II

“JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.”

Resurrection Parting Reunion

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is their life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls - who have politeness, sense and conversation - but these are few - and then look at your trademen's daughters - what are they? poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly.”

Looks May Girl Poor Common Quality Forever Fine Husband Conversation Creatures Daughter Reputation Folly Now And Then Imitation Parting Politeness Dissipation

Author:Fanny Burney

“That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.”

Running Stuff Successful Spread Who We Are Parting

Author:Matt Hasselbeck

“The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.”

Thinking Bigs Might Negative Dues Competing Revenue Parting Shortage Announcements Cisco

Author:Kate Warne

“It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.”

Author:Nan Aron

“The parts of Shaggy, Daphne, Freddie and Velma played by Linda Cardellini are all iconic and not really personality-driven, so it doesn't really matter who plays those roles, ... But it is true that Matthew nailed it.”

Matter Play Roles Personality Driven Parting Iconic Matthew

Author:Charles Roven

“The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.”

Sea Red Related Legends Parting Reeds Eruption Red Sea

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.”

Giving Heart May Helping Light Age Lasts Force Forever Virtue Magic Stage Youth Ready Flower Ties Fades Remorse Parting Endeavour Guarding

Author:Hermann Hesse

“If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Used Winning Lost Pleasure Flower Broken Ruins Chains Parting Gloves Forgetfulness Faded Tokens

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis