Long Quotes

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I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest. — Moshe Dayan
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never… — Groucho Marx
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. — Philip Pullman
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where… — Charles R. Swindoll
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. — Robert Mapplethorpe
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened. — Andrew Carnegie
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added,… — Samuel Johnson
After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway. — Tupac Shakur
One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and… — Graham Nash
As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well. — Steffi Graf
Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness! — William Shakespeare
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important… — Peter Drucker
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the… — Clay Shirky
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that… — Bill Bryson
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting. — Albert Camus
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant… — Stephen Jay Gould
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed.… — Maggie Stiefvater
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. — Boy George

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