Prolonged Quotes

137 quotes by 119 authors

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. — Simone de Beauvoir
Prolonged endurance tames the bold. — Lord Byron
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one… — Steve Carell
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and… — Winston Churchill
Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we may… — Theobald Smith
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. — Sun Tzu
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca the Younger
When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And… — Sun Tzu
What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. — Sun Tzu
The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to… — Paulo Freire
Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace. — Benedict of Nursia
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory. — Douglas MacArthur
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. — Seneca the Younger
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. — Dorothy Parker
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within… — Louis Agassiz
Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly and secretively. The… — Tim Field
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget. — Thomas Haynes Bayly
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people… — Ralph Nader
The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence. — Pope John Paul II

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