Long Quotes - Page 19

• It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Thinking, People

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• As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

  Jack Kelly

  Stupidity, Greed, Cowardice

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• While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.

  Eric Maisel

  Art, Believe, Hands

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

  James De Mille

  Fear, Feelings, Lasts

  James De Mille (2015). “A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder”, p.108, Booklassic

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• Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.

  Robert Dallek

  Country, Media, Years

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• There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do theater.

  Zelda Fichandler

  People, Needs, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

  Lynn Caine

  Mean, Hurtful, Widows

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”

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• So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

  Henri Bourassa

  Country, Europe, Two

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• So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.

  Khaled Mashal

  Home, Land, People

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• Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.

  Khaled Mashal

  Israel, Cost, Occupation

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• Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

  Randy Pausch

  Patience, People, Waiting

  "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch's last lecture at McConomy Auditorium of Carnegie Mellon University, www.youtube.com. September 18, 2007.

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• A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.

  Raymond Moody

  Attitude, Humor, People

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• We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Space, Trying

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• When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

  Robert Genn

  Hunger, Efficiency, Studios

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• In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.

  Robert Bateman

  Art, Clear Direction, Choices

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• Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

  Egon Friedell

  Artist, Age, Aging

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

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• So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

  Joseph Barbera

  Important, Negative, Would Be

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• Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Soldier, Victory

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• Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Fighting

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• I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Patriotic, Nightmare, Fellows

  Remarks upon taking oath of office, 9 Aug. 1974

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• Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Lying, Ends

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.413, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

  Will Rogers

  Kings, War, Fighting

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Farewell, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Years, Tree, Three

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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