Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes, Fall Quotes, Long Quotes

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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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Feet Quotes , Long Quotes

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Long Quotes , Age 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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Typewriters 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

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

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

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Life Quotes , Long Quotes

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Years Quotes , Long Quotes

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

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

Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Country Quotes , Long Quotes

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

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Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Book Quotes , Long Quotes

Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Long Quotes

Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Long Quotes , Comfort Quotes

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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Tags : Al Gore Quotes , Government Quotes , Long Quotes

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Stupidity 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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Long Quotes

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Long Quotes

I say, without characters, fame lives long.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Character Quotes , Long Quotes