Long Quotes
22418 quotes by 10256 authors
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I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no…
— Vera Brittain
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Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way…
— Ewan McGregor
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On one occasion I got this really bizarre horoscope thing from someone. It was a full-on zodiac reading, charting and intersecting all this stuff. It…
— Robert Pattinson
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You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even…
— Samuel Ullman
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Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
— Alice Paul
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Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause…
— Jim Beaver
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I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and…
— Kylie Minogue
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We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This is the short and the long of it.
— William Shakespeare
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It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not…
— Danny Glover
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
— John Stuart Mill
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The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have a set of towels from…
— Joan Rivers
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Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
— Thomas Jefferson
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He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
— James I. Robertson, Jr.
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I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
— Ernie Pyle
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But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected…
— Tennessee Williams
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Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to…
— Grantland Rice
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