- General Relativity
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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.
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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.
- Summer
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020