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"I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him."
"I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains."
"The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so."
"When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days."
"The eternal Being is forever if he is at all."
"Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant."
"I could stay with you forever and never realize the time."
"You can't do something forever."
"Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend."
"Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and fans ... an incredible solo performer ... the creator of our favorite songs."
"I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills."
"The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him."
"When a woman feels the first grip of her child's dependence upon her, she has forever lost her freedom. If the child dies, a grave shackles her soul through life. If the child lives, the welfare of that child keeps perpetually between her and the sun."
"Men cannot live forever But they must die forever."
"I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever."
"If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever."
"Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers."
"It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever."
"Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there."
"I'm just a wimpy baby. We almost called the band Forever Teens because I feel like we're all kind of permanently youthful."
