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French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854–1891Related quotes
“To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”
"Walking", p. 205
The Journey Home (1977)
Context: There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated and anyone can transport himself anywhere, instantly. Big deal, Buckminster. To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me. <!-- π
“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”
Quoted in Henry Fowles Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.
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“Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 7 (p. 68) (motto of the Qeng Ho trading group).
“His time is forever, everywhere his place.”
Friendship in Absence; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Part 1, Chapter 3, Economic History, p. 43
Economics For Everyone (2008)
“Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.”
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 9, Coined Souls, p. 227
“Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 74)