1.
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.
It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
Karisma Kapoor
12.
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
13.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
Ernest Hemingway
15.
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.
16.
Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.
Pete Domenici
17.
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
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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
20.
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
21.
Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.
C.D. Payne
23.
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
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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
25.
Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
Fran Lebowitz
26.
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
27.
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
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The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.
Noam Chomsky
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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
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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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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
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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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Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.
A.S.A. Harrison
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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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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
43.
Forever only takes its toll on some
Ryan Adams
45.
My specific concerns with Trump's plans are that they are likely to investments in infrastructure where the private returns are highest (for example toll roads and bridges) rather than where the public gains are greatest.
Mariana Mazzucato
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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
John Donne
47.
Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem.
Sharon Gannon
48.
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.
Dave Barry
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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
William James
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Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.
Jane Bryant Quinn