- People
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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
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you've been Bayern for so long and it's your second home, moving away from here is not easy.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
- Nov 07, 2020
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020