T. S. Eliot Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Long Quotes

A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

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Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it.

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

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Long Quotes , Effort Quotes

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

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ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Life Quotes , Long Quotes

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Book Quotes , Long 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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As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

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Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

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This is the short and the long of it.

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Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities.

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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

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

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You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

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We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

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Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Fall Quotes , Long Quotes

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Long Quotes , Soul Quotes

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

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