- Life
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020