Long Ago Quotes - Page 11

• President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Mistake, People

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

  Carl Sandburg

  Old Buildings, Littles, Happens

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.3, University of Illinois Press

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• If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

  George Santayana

  Pain, Should, Saved

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.136, MIT Press

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• One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Play, Insanity

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 20, 2013

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• I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

  Jesse Jackson

  Water, Sides, Bread

  1984 Addressing black voters, NewYork, 30 Jan.

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• We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Remember, Should

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• I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Fool, Deceiving

  "What I know about men ..." by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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• My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

  Jimmy Carter

  Taken, Years, Nests

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• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

  Grover Cleveland

  Women, Civilization, Work Out

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• I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

  Bryan Cranston

  Focus, Attention, Pay

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• Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

  Princess Diana

  Son, Sane, Left

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

  Idris Elba

  Journey, Competition, Ambitious

  FaceBook post by Idris Elba from Oct 19, 2012

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• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

  Havelock Ellis

  Stars, Moon, Hands

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• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

  "The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

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• I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

  Whitney Houston

  Believe, Shadow, Rehabilitation

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays - beyond their meaning - a factor in our economy.

  Bob Schieffer

  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Football

  "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dirty, Fighting, Naughty

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• Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Long Distance Relationship, Nature, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

  Jasper Fforde

  Long, Flavor, Available

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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• We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Self, Sometimes, Feels

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

  Brian Jacques

  Night, Wind, Once Upon A Time

  Brian Jacques (2005). “Lord Brocktree: A Tale from Redwall”, p.9, Penguin

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• When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Tired, Past

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• Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I do not need one big and strong nor yet so very tall, nor need he be some genius, or wealthy, Lord, at all; but let his head be high, dear God, and let his eye be clear, his shoulders straight, whate'er his state, whate'er his earthly sphere; and let his face have character, a ruggedness if soul, and let his whole life show, dear God, a singleness of goal; then when he comes (as he will come) with quiet eyes aglow, I'll understand that he's the man I prayed for long ago.

  Ruth Graham

  Strong, Character, Eye

  Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.51, Thomas Nelson

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• Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

  James M. Barrie

  Beautiful, Stars, Punishment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fate, Destiny, Circles

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing

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