Best Long Ago Quotations
570 Long Ago quotes by 471 unique authors
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Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more…
— Warren Buffett
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In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he…
— William Christopher Handy
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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.
— Charles Lindbergh
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I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
— Paula Danziger
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It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
— Annie Dillard
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Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young?…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that…
— Thomas Andrews
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People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten…
— Meg Wolitzer
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Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it…
— Kenneth Grahame
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She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids. I believe she had really something…
— Agatha Christie
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I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he…
— Thierry Henry
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There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and…
— Oswald Spengler
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I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild…
— Vandana Shiva
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Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that…
— Tony Robbins
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The evidence that you truly repented long ago when you said you did is because you're still repenting now and even to a greater degree.…
— Paul Washer
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My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able…
— Lady Bird Johnson
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Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
— Steven Pressfield
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Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the…
— William McKinley
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Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't…
— Georges Perec
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This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past,…
— Milan Kundera
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I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a…
— Charles Lyell
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Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels…
— Carl Safina
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