Long Quotes

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Let them hate me, so long as they fear me! — Caligula
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long… — Srully Blotnick
In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to… — Herbert Croly
Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know. — Donald Hamilton
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his… — James Keller
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has… — John Rosemond
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete… — Terrence Trammell
I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has… — Damon Hill
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. — Lynn Davies
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast… — Frederick Marryat
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another,… — Roderick Murchison
However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern of the chromosomes.… — Richard Goldschmidt
Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder… — Lakshmi Mittal
It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for… — Francis Galton
[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most… — Barbara Holland
Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking… — Yoshida Kenko

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