Quotes
Quotes - Allen
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight!
Make me a child again, just for to-night!
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,--
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body,--but we can not die,
Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn,--
Lo, all things can be borne!
It's not that I'm afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. â¢Woody Allen At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box. â¢Italian Proverb Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. â¢Vladimir Nabokov Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. â¢George Sanders, his suicide note There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. â¢Santayana Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. â¢George Bernard Shaw Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. â¢Dylan Thomas To live is to dream and to die is to awaken. â¢Anonymous We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death. â¢Nathaniel Hawthorne All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. â¢Anatole France We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. â¢Plato Dying is like getting out of a car. You leave a shell behind, but you're the same person as ever. â¢President Klein The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy . What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. â¢Richard Bach If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. â¢Albert Camus We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal. â¢Anatole France I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. â¢Jimi Hendrix The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
