Long Time Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Long, Suffering

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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

  Kate Atkinson

  Yesterday, Long, Long Time Ago

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

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• She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, Forgotten, Coraline

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs me by the collar and hurls me up against the squad car, so I can remember, at least for a moment, what it's like to be touched.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Squad, Long, Car

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• I'll find you, Will!" Then the wind filled the big, square sail of the wolfship and she heeled away from the shore, moving faster and faster towards the northeast. For a long time after she'd dropped below the horizon, the sodden figure sat there, his horse chest-deep in the rolling waves, staring after the ship. And his lips still moved, in a silent promis only he could hear.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Moving, Squares

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• I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Drinking, Sadness, Long

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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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• First loves were powerful and private,and they stayed with you for a very long time. A lifetime.(...) There would always be a small,intimate piece of your heart tucked away for the person you loved first.

  Lauren Weisberger

  Powerful, Heart, First Love

  Lauren Weisberger (2014). “Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.

  Alice Miller

  Real, Past, Long

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.2, Basic Books

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• Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem. I have not thought about it before.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Long, Goal

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• What happened?” she breathed, staring at me. “I got hit in the face with a pie,” I said. Mags stopped, blinking. “You got...hit in the face with a pie,” she repeated. “I...what? I’m sorry, but I’ve been in charge of this Library for a long time. I’ve seen a lot of really ridiculous things. I lived in Wales. And there is no way being hit with a pie should have turned you human.” “It was a really evil pie,” I said.

  Mira Grant

  Sorry, Should Have, Pie

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• Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eyebrows, Long, Decision

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.552, St. Martin's Griffin

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• For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Ignorance, Long Ago, Giving

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• I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

  Marie Lu

  Thinking, Long, Saws

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.229, Penguin

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• Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Add, Annie

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus." "That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not." "He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin." Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time.

  Rick Riordan

  Latin, Mean, Voice

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.209, Penguin UK

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• Well, I suppose he’s stuck with you forever then.” “Yes, and forever is a very long time.” He pauses and then says, “Well, for the record, something tells me he wouldn’t have it any other way.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Long, Forever, Records

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• Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

  Raymond Carver

  Long, Dirt, Like You

  Raymond Carver (2015). “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, p.25, Vintage

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• Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Beautiful, Time, Sorry

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Tay Bridge Disaster”

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• We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Time, Long, Moments

  Statement made in a 1946 debate to repeal the Conservatives' "Trade Disputes Act" of 1927 in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations", Third Edition, 1980.

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• For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

  Alison Uttley

  Time, Brother, Real

  1948 Carts and Candlesticks.

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• Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Long, Age

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• Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

  Warren Buffett

  Time, Long, Enemy

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• It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

  Antonio Porchia

  Time, Long, Heaven

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