“ You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 1.6K
“ It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ”
- James Douglas- Copy
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“ I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ”
- Stephen Dunn- Copy
- 457
“ It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 44
“ Never back away from a challenge if it's something you want really want to do. Duck it, and it will haunt you the rest of your life. ”
- Harvey Mackay’s dad- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward be at one. ”
- Socrates- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear … that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. ”
- Rabbi Harold Kushner- Copy
- 3.2K
“ One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
- 220
“ And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.2K
“ If you must begin, then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. ”
- Chögyam Trungpa- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images… ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday… ”
- William Trogdon- Copy
- 3K
“ We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace… ”
- Elizabeth Drew- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All hallows Eve… And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. ”
- Kim Elizabeth- Copy
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“ The path of least resistance was to get into an established burlesque house. I got my first job as an organist at the Burbank on Main Street in downtown L.A. The Follies was a sleazy place down the street. L.A. was quite a place back in the '40s, it was a haunted city. ”
- Anton LaVey- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the I'll raise your taxes reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election. ”
- Dick Morris- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. ”
- William Least Heat Moon- Copy
- 1.1K
“ For the record, Lights Out is not about my father. It was written because producer Glen Ballard wanted me to write a song like that. I revolted against the idea, but I knew I could I get his attention if I did it. I wrote it in like 45 minutes; the lyrics just came out… ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility. ”
- James E. Rogers- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs… ”
- Norman Maclean- Copy
- 2K
“ I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousand fold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics, or medicine — the special pleading of selfish interests. ”
- Henry Hazlitt- Copy
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