Long Time Quotes - Page 29

• For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Ignorance, Long Ago, Giving

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• I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

  Marie Lu

  Thinking, Long, Saws

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.229, Penguin

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• Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Add, Annie

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus." "That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not." "He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin." Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time.

  Rick Riordan

  Latin, Mean, Voice

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.209, Penguin UK

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• Well, I suppose he’s stuck with you forever then.” “Yes, and forever is a very long time.” He pauses and then says, “Well, for the record, something tells me he wouldn’t have it any other way.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Long, Forever, Records

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• Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

  Raymond Carver

  Long, Dirt, Like You

  Raymond Carver (2015). “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, p.25, Vintage

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• Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Beautiful, Time, Sorry

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Tay Bridge Disaster”

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• We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Time, Long, Moments

  Statement made in a 1946 debate to repeal the Conservatives' "Trade Disputes Act" of 1927 in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations", Third Edition, 1980.

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• For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

  Alison Uttley

  Time, Brother, Real

  1948 Carts and Candlesticks.

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• Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Long, Age

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• Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

  Warren Buffett

  Time, Long, Enemy

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• It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

  Antonio Porchia

  Time, Long, Heaven

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• Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

  John Updike

  Time, Long, Figures

  John Updike (2003). “Rabbit is rich ; Rabbit at rest”

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• It's been a long time since I've been me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Time, Long

  Fernando Pessoa (2009). “The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos: 1928-1935”

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• For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Time, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

  Peter Dinklage

  Inspirational, Graduation, Long

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• I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

  Bill Walton

  Get Well, Health, Long

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• I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Country, Real, Women

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• A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy - how that was all that love was - ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize, she'd say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Life, Wall, Eye

  "If You Come Softly". Book by Jacqueline Woodson, 1998.

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• Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Long, People

  "Song: 'Cocaine Decisions'". 1983.

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• In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Long, Ashes

  "Quæstionum Naturalium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Book III. 27,

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• A week is a long time in politics.

  Harold Wilson

  Long, Political, Politics

  Nigel Rees Sayings of the Century (1984) p. 149

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• One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Long, Impossible

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• To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Time, Men, Data

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.24, Penguin

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• When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

  Bill Austin

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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