Long Quotes - Page 12

• I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.

  Claude Monet

  Stupid, Bed, Exhausted

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

  Claude Monet

  People, Exhibitions, Taste

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.

  Claude Monet

  Frustration, Thinking, Painting

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

  Sarah Doudney

  Autumn, Past, Wind

  Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Memories, Long Ago, Tales

  "Long, Long Ago" (song) (ca. 1835)

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• Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Form

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.

  James Dickey

  Life, Running, Tides

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• Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Wrath, Arlington, Dollars

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”

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• No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Doe, May

  Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss (1991). “Kant: Political Writings”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.

  Mooji

  Real, Realizing, Persons

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• You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!

  Mooji

  Trust, Skins, Enough

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• No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

  Horace Greeley

  Kitchen, Resources, Should

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• It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

  Frank Zappa

  Stupidity, Would Be, Debt

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

  Tony Blair

  Attitude, Loss, Opportunity

  "Tony Blair's Mansion House speech: full text". www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2005.

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• If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Running, Perfect

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• As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Jumping, Littles, Arise

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.

  Peter McWilliams

  Anger, Emotional, Advice

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• There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

  Louis Armstrong

  Fashion, Breathing, Interesting

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• Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

  Sam Abell

  Distance, Believe, Ambition

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• Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Song, Thinking, People

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.264

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• Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.

  Theodore Parker

  Summer, Sweet, Winter

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.153

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• No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving Up, Pain, Grief

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Sep 07, 2016

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• I like my hair long because I have really big ears.

  Josh Groban

  Hair, Ears, Bigs

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Honor

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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