- 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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long, America tolerated a 'democratic exception' in the Muslim Middle East. As long as governments were friendly and backed regional stability, there was no need for outsiders to encourage representative government.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.
- Casts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not one foot will I fly, so long as breath bides within my breast; for, by Him that shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my battles or my life. I will die King of England.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God's grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.
- Deep Breath
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- Nov 07, 2020
An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020