Long Quotes
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For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.
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There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.
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TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
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Be the day never so long,Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
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Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
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If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
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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.
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People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
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It's indescribable, I've waited so long for this to happen
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I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.
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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
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As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
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And they are gone: ay, ages long agoThese lovers fled away into the storm.
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Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
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I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
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The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.
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Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
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The best tool today is longevity insurance - they call it income insurance. Most people know the value of life insurance. But what if you live? So instead of trying to guess one or the other, you plan for those 20 years and you get this income insurance. If you live beyond 85, you have money that's guaranteed for as long as you live in the form of an annuity.
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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they have a little extra and it is easy and safe to give, they do so. After all, God loves a cheerful giver, right?
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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
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There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
