Anton Chekhov Quotes, Writing Quotes, Long Quotes

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

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The one who rules like the mother lasts long.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Mother Quotes , Long Quotes

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Heart Quotes , Long Quotes

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Life Quotes , Long Quotes

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Long Quotes , Desire Quotes

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Long Quotes , Hinduism Quotes

In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Long Quotes , Hopeful Quotes

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Long Quotes , Essentials Quotes

We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged that disputes be resolved peacefully, including through mechanisms like international arbitration.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Believe Quotes , Long Quotes

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Long Quotes , Peculiar Quotes

I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Long Quotes , Leader Quotes

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Long Quotes , Calumny Quotes

As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Long Quotes

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Health Quotes , Long Quotes

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

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Tags : Alan Vega Quotes , Halfway There Quotes , Long Quotes

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Long Quotes , Done Quotes

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sight Quotes , Long Quotes

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

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Tags : Al Sharpton Quotes , Dance Quotes , Long Quotes