Long Time Quotes - Page 34

• Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

  John Updike

  Time, Long, Figures

  John Updike (2003). “Rabbit is rich ; Rabbit at rest”

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• It's been a long time since I've been me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Time, Long

  Fernando Pessoa (2009). “The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos: 1928-1935”

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• For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Time, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

  Peter Dinklage

  Inspirational, Graduation, Long

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• I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

  Bill Walton

  Get Well, Health, Long

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• I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Country, Real, Women

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• A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy - how that was all that love was - ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize, she'd say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Life, Wall, Eye

  "If You Come Softly". Book by Jacqueline Woodson, 1998.

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• Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Long, People

  "Song: 'Cocaine Decisions'". 1983.

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• In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Long, Ashes

  "Quæstionum Naturalium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Book III. 27,

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• A week is a long time in politics.

  Harold Wilson

  Long, Political, Politics

  Nigel Rees Sayings of the Century (1984) p. 149

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• One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Long, Impossible

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• To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Time, Men, Data

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.24, Penguin

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• When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

  Bill Austin

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Long, Tree

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• I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

  Daniel Craig

  Long, Worry, Long Time Ago

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• Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.

  Galileo Galilei

  Light, Long, Silence

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• For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Animal, Thinking

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• Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.

  Ramsey Clark

  Money, Real, Government

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• Don't teach too many postures; just the main ones, and hold them for a long time.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Long, Posture

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• Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

  Leo Rosten

  Time, Laughter, Thinking

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1959). “The return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n”

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• Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Heart, Long

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• Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had
  I've been with you such a long time
  You're my sunshine and I want you to know
  That my feelings are true
  I really love you
  Oh you're my best friend

  John Deacon

  Real, Love You, Sunshine

  Song: You're My Best Friend

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• He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Long, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.241, Courier Corporation

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• The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience, will require a long time and painstaking work. Without socialization of agriculture, there can be no complete, consolidated socialism.

  Mao Zedong

  Agriculture, Long, Judging

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.29, China Books

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• The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such a struggle. Before a brand-new social system can be built on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. Invariably, remnants of old ideas reflecting the old system remain in people's minds for a long time, and they do not easily give way. After a co-operative is established, it must go through many more struggles before it can be consolidated. Even then, the moment it relaxes its efforts it may collapse.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Ideas, Long

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.33, China Books

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