Long Runs Quotes - Page 22

• It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.

  John George Nicolay

  Confidence, Running, Long

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

  Trent Franks

  Running, Long, Survival

  "Rep. Trent Franks Calls Marriage Equality A 'Threat To The Nation’s Survival'" by Brian Tashman, www.rightwingwatch.org. October 28, 2011.

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• My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

  Peter Singer

  Running, Thinking, Ethical Issues

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• If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Long, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.516, Delphi Classics

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• Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Memories, Knowing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

  Gary Chapman

  Running, Children, Long

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2012). “The 5 Love Languages of Children”, p.70, Moody Publishers

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• In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Running, Destiny, Thinking

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• ... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

  Frederick Buechner

  Running, Long, Joy

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 28, 2016

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• In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Running

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

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• In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

  Daniel Dennett

  Running, Long, Information

  "Daniel Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 17, 2008.

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• I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).

  Sarah Vowell

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most--for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Running, Want Something, Long

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• In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

  Howard Zinn

  Running, Long, Culture

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.10, Routledge

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• Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Running, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.105, HarperCollins UK

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• The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.41, Random House

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• I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Educational, Long

  "Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics". 190+ Stories & Sketches,

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• I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Running, Believe, Ideas

  "Spitzer Apologizes After Prostitution Case Surfaces". www.npr.org. March 10, 2008.

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• Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

  Ice T

  Running, Artist, Long

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• In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Running, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.167, Penguin

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• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Running, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.28, Graphic Arts Books

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• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Running, Teaching

  A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

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• We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

  E. B. White

  Running, Wine, Long

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

  E. B. White

  Change, Running, Long

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.85, Cornell University Press

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