Long Ago Quotes - Page 22

• There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.

  Don Bassingthwaite

  Friendship, Betrayal, Eye

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• Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

  Nick Gordon

  Eight, Light, Miracle

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• Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

  George W. Bush

  Suicide, Children, Choices Made

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Play, Lust, Castles

  Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.

  George Washington

  Army, America, Enemy

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• Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

  Robert Breault

  Struggle, Parent, Mittens

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• Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.

  John Facenda

  Strength, Being Strong, Sports

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• A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or when (as Aldo Leopold long ago pointed out) no one is watching, hunter ethics is an individual responsibility. As the existentialists would have it, we determine our own honor minute by minute, action by action, one decision at a time.

  David Petersen

  Responsibility, Law, Decision

  "The North American Model for Wildlife Conservation Is an Endangered Species in Colorado" by David Petersen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.

  Otsuichi

  Gratitude, Children, Thinking

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• Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, 'Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd'.

  Buster Keaton

  Thinking, Actors, Crowds

  Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.369, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.

  Will Eisner

  Art, Feelings, Done

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• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. I was proud when President Nixon ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor, which we should have done long ago, because I think we're helping a brave little country defend herself against Communist invasion. That's what I tried to show in The Green Berets and I took plenty of abuse from the critics.

  John Wayne

  Country, Thinking, Should Have

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• I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

  Dirk Benedict

  Medical Bills, Normalcy, Abnormal

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• Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!

  Marcel Leroux

  Global Warming, Existence, Greenhouses

  Marcel Leroux (2006). “Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology”, p.4, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.

  Janet Horne

  Birthday, Love You, Thinking

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• It does not seem a year
  Since last we sent to you
  Our wishes for your special day
  And all that you would do.
  And once again we wish you
  All joyous things and more
  A day that's filled with happiness
  And memories to store.
  Then when you think in years to come
  Of Birthdays long ago
  You may remember fondly
  How much we love you so.
  So have a day of pleasure
  Do things that make you smile
  For .............. you are treasured
  Today and all the while.

  Janet Horne

  Birthday, Memories, Love You

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• I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'.

  Thierry Henry

  Stars, Player, Awards

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• There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Patience, Long, Virtue

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• Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Men, Blood

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

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• I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.

  Vandana Shiva

  Loyalty, Country, Thinking

  "Making the connection". www.share-international.org. June 2011.

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• Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Quality, Action

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• The evidence that you truly repented long ago when you said you did is because you're still repenting now and even to a greater degree. The evidence that you believed a long time ago is that you're still believing now and ever more believing in greater and greater degrees.

  Paul Washer

  Believe, Degrees, Said

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• My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Home, Heart, Order

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• Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Mastery, Individual

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.37, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

  William McKinley

  Competition, Would Be, Farming

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.543, tredition

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