- 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
- Dividing
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- Nov 07, 2020
But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
- Malice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
- Great Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our state is truly remarkable because we are leading this country with sound conservative principles. As long as we continue fighting for our ideals, we'll move forward.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked on a variety of campaigns and fought for a variety of conservative causes for a long time. But it wasn't until I came back from my military service that I realized I needed to devote myself to others.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.
- Bona
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate - and even that could probably be waived.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020