Long Runs Quotes - Page 20

• I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.

  Fay Weldon

  Running, Real, Long

  Fay Weldon (1993). “Life Force”

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• it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Running, Long, Way

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.39, Northwestern University Press

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• In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.

  Dorothea Brande

  Running, Years, Differences

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• In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Running, Lonely, Adversity

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• There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Running, Money, Cutting

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

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• In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Running, Philosophy, Errors

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.

  Barbara Deming

  Change, Running, Long

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Long, Historical

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• What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.

  Christa Wolf

  Running, War, Mean

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• If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Running, Party, Long

  "Diana Abu-Jaber: The Only Response to Silencing is to Keep Speaking". Interview with Andrea Shalal-Esa, www.aljadid.com. 2002.

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• I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.

  Al Sharpton

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In the previous days and times, we've been involved, not exclusively, but largely, in the process of individual survival: How do I get through the day, how do I get through the week, how do I get through the month? In the 21st century, we're learning that we can no longer concentrate on individual survival strategies, that unless we begin to coalesce those strategies and learn how we can survive collectively, that no individual is going to survive in the long run.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Running, Long, Survival

  Source: www.kabbalah.info

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• Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.

  Lou Krieger

  Running, Memories, Long

  Lou Krieger (1999). “More Hold'em Excellence: A Winner for Life”, p.3, ConJelCo LLC

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• Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue", Fr.); all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

  African Spir

  Running, Long, Succeed

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 37), 1937.

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• While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

  Daphne Oz

  Running, Long, Healthy

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• I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

  Joel Courtney

  Running, Long, Acting

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• In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Mass Destruction, Long

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.272, Hoover Press

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• The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Men, Squares

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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• What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.

  Tony Judt

  Running, Long, Optimism

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• An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Running, Educational, Play

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• Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. . . Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

  David Bayles

  Running, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

  David Bayles

  Running, Perseverance, Hard Work

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.3, Image Continuum Press

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• I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

  Aziz Ansari

  Running, Couple, Long

  "Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: "elusive and sadly ephemeral"". Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Running, Lying, Mean

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1997). “The Great Crash, 1929”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

  Ian Frazier

  Running, Texas, Long

  "On Texas" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2014.

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