Long Ago Quotes - Page 20

• Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

  Esi Edugyan

  Littles, Canada, Conversation

  Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

  Simon Van Booy

  Long, Dreamer, World

  Simon van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.316, Oneworld Publications

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• I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

  Bertice Berry

  World, Down And, Possibility

  Bertice Berry (2002). “Jim and Louella's Homemade Heart-Fix Remedy”, p.24, Broadway Books

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• Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, People, Fantasy

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Children, Father

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• The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight.

  George Dantzig

  Art, Math, Science

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• Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

  Everett Reimer

  Children, School, Thinking

  Everett Reimer (1971). “School is dead: an essay on alternatives in education”, Not Avail

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• I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

  Charles Lyell

  Southern, Thames, Periods

  Charles Lyell (1873). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man with an Outline of Glacial and Post-tertiary Geology and Remarks on the Origin of Species with Special Reference to Mans First Appearance on the Earth by Charles Lyell”, p.202

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• Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a primal urge to move. The geese feel it, and so do I. Perhaps it is a last internal vestige from a time, long ago, when we migrated with the seasons across open plains, following the animals we pursued for food. Perhaps that is why the sight of migrating geese arrests our attention, why we feel the pull. We want to go, to travel in fresh or moody weather, taking in each newly revealed vista.

  Carl Safina

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

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• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

  Zane Grey

  Fishing, Trout, Capture

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Southern Rivers”, p.130, Derrydale Press

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• Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Military, Men, Two

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• I long ago observed that the real beauty of the sound comes from the generosity of the heart.

  Marcel Moyse

  Real, Heart, Generosity

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• People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep guts. There's always been a market for people who pretend to know the future. Listening to today's forecasters is just as crazy as when the king hired the guy to look at the sheep guts.

  Charlie Munger

  Kings, Crazy, Sheep

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• Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

  Lawrence Block

  Enough, Persons, Knows

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• We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural disasters or “acts of God.”  But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.

  David Suzuki

  Powerful, Earthquakes, Fire

  David Suzuki (2014). “The David Suzuki Reader, 2nd Edition: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker”, p.55, Greystone Books Ltd

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• If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

  Billy Sunday

  Done, World, Preaching

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• If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Committed, Drunkards

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• Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago...that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy.

  Louis C. K.

  Years, Two, White

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• Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspiration, Positivity, Years

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• From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.

  Luke Davies

  Art, Adventure, Curiosity

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• Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Omnipotence, Desire

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

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• I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows. If I fail, if I succeed...At least I live as I believe. No matter what they take from me, They can't take away my dignity. Because the greatest love of all is happening to me. I found the greatest love of all inside of me. The greatest love of all is easy to achieve. Learning to LOVE YOURSELf...It is the GREATEST love of all

  Whitney Houston

  Believe, Love You, Shadow

  Song: The Greatest Love Of All

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• If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  School, Simple, Majority

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• I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Travel, Holiday, West Coast

  Song: Holiday Road

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• I have long ago accepted that I am a little crazy and a little weird. It wasn't that exciting a revelation though. Turns out everyone is.

  Daniel Pearce

  Crazy, Being Different, Littles

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