A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point. — Ronald Colman Copy Share Image
Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another,… — Rosemary Altea Copy Share Image
“No life had ever been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance. — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“To stomach the world for any prolonged length of time, one must either remain a child or become more than a man” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“A person couldn't make something last if it wasn't meant to, like a person couldn't be someone they weren't. And trying only… — Mira Lyn Kelly Copy Share Image
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I don't like prolonged, highly expensive commissions, especially if they are chaired by judges. We seem to have overwhelming faith in judges. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
So-called 'complex carbs' may actually represent a more significant threat to health than simple sugar in that they may not only raise… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“He died a modern death, in hospital,…after medical science had prolonged his life to a point where the terms on which it… — julian barnes Copy Share Image
