Long Time Quotes - Page 22

• And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, Wicked, Witch

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• Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Long, Flying

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Humor, Kissing, Eyebrows

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Taken, Long

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

  Paul Theroux

  Long, Going Away, Different

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown”, p.470, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

  Eudora Welty

  Long, Matter, Destination

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• Oh baby," he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts his head in his hands. His hair falls over his fingers. The bathroom door clicks shut. She stays there for a long time. He's pulling his hair out.

  Lisa McMann

  Baby, Fall, Hair

  "Fade". Book by Lisa McMann, books.google.ru. August 5, 2010.

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• For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Long, People, Shadow

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• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

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• Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Long, People

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• This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

  Carson McCullers

  Hurt, Real, Heart

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• Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Long, Kind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.68, Hamilton Books

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• Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Long, Racism

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• Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

  Daniel Handler

  Grief, Sadness, Love Is

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• The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Long, Mind, Body

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.69, Penguin

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• I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Long, Finals, Language

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.20, A&C Black

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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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• ..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long time. Writers only like to sniff their own turds. I am one of those. I don't even like to talk to writers, look at them or worse, listen to them. And the worst is to drink with them, they slobber all over themselves, really look piteous, look like they are searching for the wing of the mother. I'd rather think about death than about other writers. Far more pleasant.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Thinking, Wings

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• That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.

  Joseph Roth

  Memories, Long, People

  Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.94, The Overlook Press

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• I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Men, Animal, Boys

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• I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Talking, Long, Brain

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.6, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Long, Parent, Age

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• You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Long, Looks

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night”, p.37, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat!

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Thinking, Long

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

  Donald Miller

  Long, People, Water

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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