Long Quotes
22418 quotes by 10954 authors
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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As long as there's hate in your heart, there'll be hate in the world. You can't fight for peace and you cannot capture freedom.
— Charles Manson
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not…
— Samuel Johnson
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As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are learned or…
— Dalai Lama
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Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like…
— Annie Lennox
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen…
— Charles Dickens
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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
— Louis Auchincloss
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You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to…
— Blythe Danner
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I never think about age. I believe your age is totally how you feel. I've seen women of thirty-five who are old and people of…
— Joan Collins
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Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile…
— Hank Aaron
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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as…
— George Burns
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.
— Walt Whitman
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You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not…
— Robert Breault
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
— Josh Billings
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The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
— Daniel Handler
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of…
— Jean Dubuffet
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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much…
— George Washington Carver
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I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from…
— Elaine Stritch
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