Long Quotes
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There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.
Earl Nightingale
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others.
George Gilder
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I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.
Asif Kapadia
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Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you're working on.
John Collison
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The royal refugee our breed restoresWith foreign courtiers and with foreign whores,And carefully repeopled us again,Throughout his lazy, long, lascivious reign.
Daniel Defoe
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The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?
Nevil Shute
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While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.
Charles Boustany
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For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - despite being overweight by conventional standards.
Boy George
Culture Club
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Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.
Thomas Sowell
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It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.
Debbie Harry
Blondie
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Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.
Colm Toibin
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It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.
Sheila Heti
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Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.
Seneca the Younger
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In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.
Bill Dedman
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In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.
Martha Gellhorn
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I reason that as long as I'm smiling 90 percent of the time, I can handle the setbacks that occur 10 percent of the time.
Payal Kadakia
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Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
Ben Mendelsohn
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Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.
Eric Ripert
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That’s what I wanted to do. You know, 2 hours. It’s like long-distance running or playing in a football game when you totally run out of steam and the moves you make after you run out of steam, because you’re totally unselfconscious, you’re not even thinking about the mechanics anymore. The moves you make then are incredible.
Jeff Buckley
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I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.
Jim Elliot