Quotes About Tolling

#1. Nobody likes paying tolls. It's difficult to explain the concept of dynamic tolling, where the price varies to maintain the flow of traffic. And it's difficult to explain why highway widenings don't wind up helping commuters in the long run.

Robert James Thomson

#2. The mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time's flight through an eternity of peace; and Great Tom, tolling his nightly hundred-and-one, called home only the rooks from off Christ Church Meadow.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#3. The bell tolling not for us, it's time for bluebells.

Lara Biyuts

#4. We'd made the wise choice, done the right thing. I had to believe that logic would bring comfort in time. Tonight, there was just this too-quiet room, the ache of loss, knowledge deep and final as the tolling of a bell: Something good has gone.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. Tolling plan is a wonderful opportunity for political pandering, and some candidates are taking full advantage of it.

Robert James Thomson

#7. Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin arrives
ruin does not leave
it comes tolling over the generations
it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor
and all your thrashed coasts groan

Anne Carson

#8. Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.

Frank Herbert

#11. We'd been drinking for something like fourteen hours straight when the moment had come, the bell, so to speak, was tolling, and it was time for me to leave Oslo behind.

Loren Niva

#12. Will read a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh at his grandmother's funeral.

"Pondering the joys we had, listen & keep very still. If the lowing from the hill or the tolling of the bell do not
serve to break the spell, listen: you may be allowed to hear my laughter from a cloud.

Lynne Branard

#13. The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

Elizabeth I

#14. You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

Virginia Woolf

#15. 10And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

Anonymous

#16. Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they've become just another Wall Street plaything.

Gary Weiss

#17. Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

Isaac Asimov

#18. I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

Pat Robertson

#19. Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

Seth Godin

#20. Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Karel Capek

#21. I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

Solomon Burke

#22. We come from a somewhat puritanical and chauvinistic point-of-view, so that when we're asked questions about women being empowered by sexuality, we often confuse it with women who are victimized by it.

Amber Heard

#23. A Jap's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty ... This coast is too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast except on a permit from my office.

John L. DeWitt

#24. Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

John Green

#25. Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!

Tony Jones

#26. Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#27. You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

Martin Parr