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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As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

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I'm not one for being too profound, but I will say this. If you wanna have a good time, if you wanna drink a little bit y'know get your sing-a-long on, come and see the Dropkick Murphys and have a good time.

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The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

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We're a long way from the embargo ending. Look at what just happened with the rollback of Obama's Cuba policies. Two idiot congressmen convinced our idiot president to make it harder on Cubans on the island.

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Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Long Quotes

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Long Quotes , Understanding Quotes

Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.

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In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

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The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

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When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Long Quotes

I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Long Quotes

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Long Quotes , People Quotes

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

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