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"If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't."
"Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business."
"But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on."
"Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on."
"The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore."
"I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike."
"Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself."
"Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!"
"When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it."
"I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show."
"In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadn’t brought it up, and they hadn’t brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Don’t ask, don’t tell."
"Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day."
"If we're talking music I could go on and on and on."
"As the show [Dracula] goes on,Jonathan Harker gets darker and darker, and further into that side of it all. All of the worlds end up colliding and meshing together."
"Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it."
"The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months."
"The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong to fall into such a mood, for Wars are always lost, and War always goes on; and it is no good growing faint."
"Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing."
"Obviously, in a friendship there are always things, good and bad, that go on between people. You can't take away what's already happened. And if it's something that's really terrible, I think you have to forget about the friendship."
"How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!"
