Long Time Ago Quotes - Page 12

• America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

  Tommy Franks

  America, Hands, Long

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• Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it a long time ago - complex problems invariably require complex and difficult solutions.

  Steve Herbert

  Wisdom, Intelligent, Simple

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• If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

  Michael Jordan

  Long, Underpaid, Ifs

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• I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago

  Armand Assante

  Long, Hollywood, Long Time

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• I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

  Campbell Scott

  New York, Simple, Thinking

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• I'll explain it to you. To me it's more than a game." She touches her chest and says, "When you love something as much as I love football, you just feel it inside. Did you ever love doing something so bad that it consumed you?" "A long time ago." "That's what football is to me. It's my passion, my life… my escape. When I play, I forget everything that sucks in my life. And when we win…" She looks down like she's embarrassed to admit what she's about to reveal. "I know this is going to sound stupid, but when we win I think miracles can happen.

  Simone Elkeles

  Football, Stupid, Passion

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• It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

  Kate Atkinson

  Yesterday, Long, Long Time

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.546, Random House

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• This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

  Sam Shepard

  Long, Alcohol, Gone

  Sam Shepard (1984). “Sam Shepard Seven Plays”

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• My name is Cassie Palmer and I’ve cheated death more times than anyone has a right to expect. In the last two months, I’ve been shot, stabbed, beaten and blown up a few dozen times, and that doesn’t count all the magical ways I’ve almost been killed. I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first.

  Karen Chance

  Names, Two, Long

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt The Moon: Cassie Palmer”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• He cleared his throat, "Zoe, i think you said you love me." "I did say it. I do love you with all my heart." "I see." There was a long pause, then he said, "For how long has this been going on?" "I don't know," she said, "Sometimes i think it started a long, long time ago." "You might have mentioned it." "I didn't want to encourage it," she said, "I thought it was a bad idea.

  Loretta Chase

  Love You, Heart, Thinking

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• Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago--and then tossed his violin into the trash.

  Koushun Takami

  Home, Ideas, Long

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• Alec raised his blue eyes."Whos Will?" Magnus exhled a sort laugh."Will.Dear God.That was a long time ago.Will was a Shadowhunter,like you.And yes,he did look like you,but your nothing like him.Jace is much more the way Will was,in personality at least-and my relationship with you is nothing like the one I had with Will.Is that whats bothering you?" "I dont like thinking your only with me because I look like so dead guy you liked.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Thinking, Bothering You

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• SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Wise, Men, Long

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• Princess." He smiled up at me, but it was weak. "If i'd known that this is what it would take to get you to hold me, I would've collapsed a long time ago.

  Amanda Hocking

  Princess, Long, Weak

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• I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

  Lee Child

  Mother, Long, Giving

  "Nothing to Lose". Book by Lee Child, March 24, 2008.

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• Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Men, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.127, Broadview Press

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• My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, Struggle, Long

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago." Then what-?" Jayfeather began, but already Yellowfang's shape was beginning to fade, melting into the moonlight until she was gone. The moonlight abrubtly vanished, leaving Jayfeather in darkness as he woke from his dream. Mouse dung! Why can't any cat speak straight out?" he hissed

  Erin Hunter

  Dream, Lying, Cat

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• I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Long, Earth, Said

  Guy De Maupassant (2012). “The Horla”, p.11, Melville House

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• If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Mother, Believe, Long

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• "If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity." Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad."

  Richard Russo

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  "Empire Falls". Book by Richard Russo, May 8, 2001.

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• I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

  Chaim Potok

  Eye, Men, Long

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Self, Differences

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• They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.

  Ray Bradbury

  Girl, Fire, Flames

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, People, Monsters

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