- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
- Long Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to have a long career.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that's providing them security as long as that force treats them with respect.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything is possible as long as we believe in each other, always stick together.
- Distances
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- Nov 07, 2020