Long Time Quotes

• I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

  Loretta Lynn

  Long, Surprise, Life And Time

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2010

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• I'm just trying to enjoy my moment, and I would like to enjoy it for a long time.

  Lorena Ochoa

  Long, Trying, Moments

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see conversions.

  Mark Dever

  Long, Waiting, Sometimes

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

  Magic Johnson

  Long, Want, Young Sons

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.

  Gillian Anderson

  Long, Roles, Prove

  "New 'X-Files' season will be Anderson's last". The Spokesman-Review, p. D2, July 6, 2001.

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• The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

  Al Lewis

  Struggle, Long, Victory

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• If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Night, Long

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• No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

  Miranda Hart

  Dream, Blessing, Long

  "Miranda Hart: this much I know". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2012.

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• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Henry Van Dyke, “Time Is”

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• I loved you for a long, long time
  I know this love is real
  It don't matter how it all went wrong
  That don't change the way I feel
  And I can't believe that time's
  Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of
  There ain't no cure for love

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Real, Believe

  Song: Ain't No Cure For Love, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

  Brandy Norwood

  Long, Giving, Fans

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• Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

  Will Wright

  Time, Thinking, Long

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• In politics a week is a very long time.

  Harold Wilson

  Time, Long, Politics

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• Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Time, Long

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Science, Thinking, Long

  The Tesla Museum exhibition in Belgrade, and by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York, www.teslasociety.com.

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• There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

  Benjamin Constant

  Long, Doe, Speech

  Benjamin Constant (1959). “Adolphe [translated from the French by”

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• A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Positive, Attitude, Long

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• It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

  Bob Dylan

  Destiny, Long, Ends

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature" by Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off quietly to prison. And for some time, days, months, a year perhaps, life has a peace-time quality, into which war-like events intrude. But when a war has been going on for a long time, life is all war, every event has the quality of war, nothing of peace remains.

  Doris Lessing

  War, Years, Long

  DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

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• It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Heart, Eye

  "Siddhartha".

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• I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.

  John Lydon

  Long, Royal, Ifs

  Panel TV show "The Belzer Connection", 2003.

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• The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.

  George Meyer

  Couple, Years, Long

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• The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Jobs, Hard Work, Long

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