Longer Quotes
6239 Longer quotes by 3815 unique authors
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In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in…
— Edward Alsworth Ross
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Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
— Larry Kramer
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You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses…
— Michelangelo
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
— Walter Lippmann
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Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct…
— Herman Van Rompuy
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No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
— Marcus Aurelius
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When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion,…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and…
— Mark Twain
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Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
— Christopher Hitchens
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
— Henrik Ibsen
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in,…
— John C. Maxwell
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The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.
— Unknown Author
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If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
— David Byrne
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It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a…
— M. Ward
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My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.
— Albert Einstein
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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms…
— Sylvia Plath
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The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.
— Jim Shepard
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.
— Arthur Chapman
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I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th…
— Buck Owens
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My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I…
— Paulina Porizkova
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I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
— Johnny Carson
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