Long Way Quotes - Page 9

• This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Passion, Years, Long

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• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  Larry Page

  Technology, Intelligent, Giving

  "Online Extra: Google's Goal: "Understand Everything". Interview with Ben Elgin, www.bloomberg.com. May 3, 2004.

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• A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

  Jeremy Irons

  Travel, Journey, Years

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Rights, Issues

  "Obama administration reveals plans to advance gay agenda". www.catholicnewsagency.com. November 23, 2008.

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• The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a wonder to me that they survived it and have not only maintained their identity, but are actually growing stronger in some ways. The situation is still very bad, especially in certain geographical areas, but there are more Indians going to school, more Indians becoming professional people, more Indians assuming full responsibility in our society. We have a long way to go, but we're making great strides.

  N. Scott Momaday

  School, Responsibility, Growing Stronger

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• It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

  William Penn

  Men, Long, People

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• You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Country, Responsibility, Air

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• I think the most important CEO task is defining the course that the business will take over the next five or so years. You have to have the ability to see what the business environment might be like a long way out, not just over the coming months. You need to be able to both set a broad direction, and also to take particular decisions along the way that make that broad direction unfold correctly.

  Chris Corrigan

  Business, Thinking, Years

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• Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

  John P. Kotter

  Inspirational, Communication, Mean

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• I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Boys, Race

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• I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby.

  Robbie Williams

  Long Distance Relationship, Baby, Missing

  Song: Nan's Song, Album: Escapology

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• We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Life, Letting Go, Home

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013

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• I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

  William Faulkner

  Butterfly, Light, Air

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Believe, Thinking, Long

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• Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Believe, Mean

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, vol.1". Book by Douglas Adams, 2009.

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• Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

  Dorothy Height

  Rights, Long, Together

  "Gay Community Loses Black Civil Rights Ally Dorothy Height" by Irene Monroe, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2010.

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• The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

  Stevie Smith

  Running, Hands, Long

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.56, New Directions Publishing

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• The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

  Michael Ian Black

  Thank You, Appreciation, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.

  John Foster Dulles

  Military, War, Hero

  "War, Peace and Change".

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• I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

  Sally Pearson

  Retirement, Passion, Animal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.

  James Dobson

  Pain, Children, Long

  "Dare to Discipline" by James Dobson, (pp. 6-7), 1970.

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• They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

  Craig Ferguson

  Inspirational, Funny, Father

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• I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a long way too quickly. We may need to ratchet it back a little and set a new foundation to grow for the rest of the year, but continuing at this pace is going to be difficult.

  Michael Davies

  Running, Real, Opportunity

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• Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

  Laura Ingraham

  Passion, Thinking, Long

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• Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

  Frank Stock

  Funny, Rain, Climbing

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