T. S. Eliot Quotes, Typewriters Quotes, Long Quotes

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

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Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Long Quotes

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Long Quotes , Walks Quotes

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Long Quotes , Metaphysical Quotes

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Long Quotes , Life Is Quotes

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Immature Quotes

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Heart Quotes , Long Quotes

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.

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Tags : Abigail Spencer Quotes , Long Quotes , Wave Quotes

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Blue Quotes , Long Quotes

FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so I'd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration.

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When I kicked in the first TV a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

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Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Perfection Quotes , Long Quotes

There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Sex Quotes , Long Quotes

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Death Quotes , Long Quotes

Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wife Quotes , Long Quotes

If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

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