Long Quotes
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There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.
Caroline Myss -
P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.
Stephen Fry
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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
Alice Mattison -
You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.
Dolly Parton -
If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.
Simon Fuller -
I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
Joseph Heller -
But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side
Sarah Dessen -
I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.
Carrie Fisher
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Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!
Mother Teresa -
When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
Ray Bradbury -
As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?
Esther Hicks -
If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.
Simon Sinek -
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
Cecelia Ahern -
People will use you as long as you let them.
Dolly Parton
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Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
Ray Bradbury -
As long as I can make that audience one thing, one unit, then I'm okay with it. But, sometimes, the bigger the audience, the weirder it gets.
Brian Regan -
A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.
David Bowie -
People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.
Herbie Hancock -
Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.
Evgeny Morozov -
People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
Carol Plum-Ucci
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So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.
Caroline Myss -
In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
Reed Hastings -
Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.
Chien-Ming Wang -
I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
Herbie Hancock