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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
Ernest Hemingway
This present moment is simply one instance in an infinity of possibilities.
2.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Thomas Gray
3.
I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.
Kinky Friedman
4.
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Calamity Jane
6.
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.
Alfred Noyes
8.
Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.
Roger Federer
9.
Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
Michelle Pfeiffer
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Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul
Bob Dylan
11.
I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.
W. S. Merwin
12.
It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
Karisma Kapoor
14.
These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace and they have real consequences on the every day lives of workers.
P. M. Forni
15.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
Ernest Hemingway
17.
It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
18.
Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.
Pete Domenici
19.
If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.
Charles R. Swindoll
20.
I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.
Mena Suvari
21.
St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.
Leonard Little
22.
Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.
C.D. Payne
24.
Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
25.
Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.
Kenny Dalglish
26.
Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
Fran Lebowitz
27.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
Maureen O'Hara
28.
This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
Ernest Hemingway
29.
The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.
Noam Chomsky
30.
It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.
Diet Eman
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Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying
Lee Goldberg
32.
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
Ernest Hemingway
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There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.
Sax Rohmer
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"Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead.
Bill Walsh
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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
H. G. Wells
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
Ernest Hemingway
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I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.
Matt LeBlanc
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I think when I was younger, it was like - who cares? You don't realize the longterm effects. It takes its toll, which is I think why I'm better about it and take care of my body now more than ever.
Jennifer Aniston
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Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.
A.S.A. Harrison
42.
All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
Adam Smith
44.
In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
Vinton Cerf
46.
Hollywood can be a draining industry. For all the glitz and glory and wonderful parts of our business, it takes it's toll on your inner self.
Amber Heard
47.
I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. Im exhausted and I only played nine innings.
Lance Berkman
48.
Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
Eric Maisel
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Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.
Stevie Smith