Comes Quotes - page 27

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that. (Dōgen)
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star act. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs. View quote
Henry Rollins
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after. View quote
Joyce Brothers
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers-and one comes true. View quote
China Miéville
You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature. View quote
Artie Shaw
So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,- The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. View quote
John Gay
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. View quote
Philip James Bailey
I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up...and forgive. View quote
Jennifer Aniston
There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity. (Laura Riding)
Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land. View quote
Enoch Powell
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If someone puts you in front of a 30m high wall, tells you to get over it, and then comes back two years later and you're still there, you've made no progress. You should find another wall. View quote
David Belle
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure. View quote
Will Durant
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. View quote
Lin Yutang
I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind. View quote
Ted Nugent
Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet. View quote
N.T. Wright
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse – both boys and girls – but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet. (Rahul Bose)
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man. View quote
Theognis of Megara
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. View quote
Sacha Guitry
You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. View quote
Robert Delaunay