Long Quotes
22418 quotes by 10954 authors
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
— Charles Darwin
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I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and…
— Philip Larkin
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"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange…
— Ayn Rand
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked…
— M. Scott Peck
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Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.
— Aldo Gucci
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I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had…
— Vera Wang
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It was a long time ago, we were in the office, and we had finished work exhausted. A friend of a friend said 'Hey, take…
— Giorgio Armani
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Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.
— Sharon Salzberg
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Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside - the noise…
— Rajneesh
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In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on…
— Rajneesh
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More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have…
— Scilla Elworthy
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Look what we are trying. You call it dharma, but it is not. What we are trying is to come together; come together to an…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the…
— E. O. Wilson
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Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
— Robin Williams
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No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
— Jack Welch
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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable…
— Brian Tracy
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think…
— Dalai Lama
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I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to…
— Andrew Mason
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