Comes Quotes - page 28

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. (Pablo Neruda)
I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death. View quote
Benazir Bhutto
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. View quote
Benazir Bhutto
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up. View quote
George Burns
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language. View quote
Tony Abbott
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. View quote
Robert Fulghum
The rottenness comes from within. View quote
Agatha Christie
Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition--and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do--clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth--the naked shining truth. (Agatha Christie)
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons. View quote
Donald Barthelme
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education. View quote
Fukuzawa Yukichi
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
My work comes first, reasons for it follow. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
Love comes unseen,-we only see it go. View quote
Henry Austin Dobson
The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white it stays forever Their red it never dies: But Phillida, my Phillida! Her color comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,- It wavers to a rose. View quote
Henry Austin Dobson
And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines. View quote
Alexander Smith
Almost any interesting work of art comes close to saying the opposite of what it really says. View quote
Gene Wolfe
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. View quote
Bram Stoker
Still, you must know that the fear of death is irrational; death comes to everyone. View quote
Robert J. Sawyer