Tolls Quotes

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

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.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

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.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls.

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

How little we know of what there is to know.

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.

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.

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

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.

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

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.

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

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.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

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.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

But did thee feel the earth move?

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

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.

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.

Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

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.

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.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

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.

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.

Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

"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.

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.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

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.

Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

Talking payes no toll.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

According to the reports we have gathered, mostly from the refugees, it appears that around 10,000 people have been killed in more than 100 massacres. The final toll may be much worse.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.

Civilized life exacts its toll.