Long Time Quotes
2545 Long Time quotes by 1943 unique authors
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Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.…
— Chaim Potok
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
— Gregory Maguire
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If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard,…
— Richard Russo
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked…
— Janet Fitch
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For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.
— Darren Shan
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long…
— William Faulkner
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Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room…
— Haruki Murakami
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Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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But Lunch Isn't That Bad, Really Once I get used to having to eat with two people instead of one. Two people who have known…
— Sonya Sones
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I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for…
— Nick Burd
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If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have…
— Joseph Bruchac
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I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
— Guy de Maupassant
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
— Alice Sebold
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She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and…
— Edward Albee
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I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for…
— Jodi Picoult
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I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best…
— Margaret Mitchell
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For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life…
— Albert Camus
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It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her…
— Robert Penn Warren
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The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were…
— Erin Hunter
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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
— Charles Dickens
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Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and…
— Edith Wharton
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