Long Life Quotes - Page 10

• Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  Real, Long, Giving

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• And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Organization, Long, Individuality

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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• The Treorchy Male Choir's version of "Myfanwy" is one of the most glorious things I've ever heard in all my long life. Love and congratulations to you all.

  Joanna Lumley

  Congratulations, Love Life, Long

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• Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

  N. Scott Momaday

  Memories, Grandmother, Blood

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Long, Empowering

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• Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

  Howell Raines

  Maturity, Men, Long

  Howell Raines (1994). “Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis”, Anchor

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• After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

  Harold MacMillan

  Long, Establishment, Conclusion

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• Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.

  Satish Kumar

  Children, Destiny, Giving

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• If you were a person in Rockhampton who is wondering where your next job was coming from, and you had the prospect of one of Australia's largest ever coal projects with a very, very long life span being developed and reviving the regional economy. And you saw the Greens in particular doing their little best to stop it happening.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, Australia, Long

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Word is sort of spreading by itself, largely among young people. And if word gets out that young people can actually come out to the polls and, in fact, take over this election in order to liberate themselves from life-long debts, we could actually win.

  Jill Stein

  Winning, Order, Long

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

  Hetty King

  Responsibility, Long, Criminals

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• I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Confidence, Skills

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• Politicians have a lot to deal with these days. It's a different world. You know who I feel bad for? Arab Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting. Could be their life long dream,
  and every time they ask for a pamphlet, all hell breaks loose.

  Brian Regan

  Dream, Long, Different

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• Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

  Robert A. Burton

  Angel, Men, Long

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• Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Long, Vision

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• We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

  John Mayer

  Long, Age, Term

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• All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

  Amelia Barr

  Brother, Husband, Fighting

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• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.404, Princeton University Press

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• NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Mind, Generations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

  George Orwell

  Disappointment, Law, Long

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.47, Hamilton Books

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• He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Life, Song

  "Luther's Works: Table talk".

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• The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Long, Futility

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.190, Modern Library

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• Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.

  Louis Agassiz

  Success, Nature, Book

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• The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune.

  James Madison

  Education, Men, Long

  James Madison (1965). “The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison”

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• I say, without characters, fame lives long.

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Long, Fame

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1808). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.82

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