H. G. Wells Quotes, Years 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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Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Long Quotes , Life Is 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

I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical.

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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

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For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).

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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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So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

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The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Heart Quotes , Long Quotes

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Long Quotes , Mind Quotes

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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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Long Quotes , Accommodations 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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A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Men 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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Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fall Quotes , Long Quotes