William Butler Yeats Quotes, Moving Quotes, Long Quotes

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

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Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue", Fr.); all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Running Quotes , Long Quotes

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

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Long Quotes , Meals Quotes

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes

And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Goodbye Quotes , Long Quotes

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Long Quotes

The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Cat 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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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

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

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Long Quotes , Silence Quotes

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Long Quotes , Looks Quotes

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Wise Quotes , Long Quotes

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Believe Quotes , Long Quotes

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Long Quotes , Speech Quotes

I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Hunting Quotes , Long Quotes

Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Long Quotes , Life And Death 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've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

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

It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Long Quotes , Mind Quotes

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Country Quotes , Long Quotes