Long Quotes - Page 18

• So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

  Joseph Barbera

  Important, Negative, Would Be

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• Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.

  Kobe Bryant

  Wealth, Accumulation, Distribution

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• I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Vision, Forget

  "World religions converge at U.N. conference". www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.

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• Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Soldier, Victory

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• Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Fighting

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• Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours. He was poured from the same first fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy Heaven or not, he has terrestrial immortality. His life, not long, not short, knows no beginning , no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal eternity.

  John Muir

  Adventure, Heart, Blue

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• I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Patriotic, Nightmare, Fellows

  Remarks upon taking oath of office, 9 Aug. 1974

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• Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

  Jewel

  Break Up, Dream, Ex Boyfriend

  Song: You Were Meant for Me, Album: Pieces Of You

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• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.

  Walter Cronkite

  Love, Vacation, Play

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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• Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Lying, Ends

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.413, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

  Will Rogers

  Kings, War, Fighting

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.

  John Muir

  Life, Running, Fun

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.720, Library of America

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• For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Farewell, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Years, Tree, Three

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Mother, Children, Get Over

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.31, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Believe, Men, Christianity

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• Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Judgment, Bigs

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• It's been so long since you last saw each other. She could at least smile.

  Kim Su-mi

  Drama, Lasts, Saws

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• At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Powerful, Sleep, Soul

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Giving, Satisfaction

  Jawaharlal Nehru (2003). “The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru”

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• Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Inspirational, Fun, Business

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• . . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

  Tom McCall

  War, Jail, Long Ago

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• Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Sorry

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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