Prolonged Quotes
137 quotes by 119 authors
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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
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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
— Lord Byron
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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
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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
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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
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There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
— Sun Tzu
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
— Seneca the Younger
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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
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What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
— Sun Tzu
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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
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Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.
— Benedict of Nursia
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War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
— Seneca the Younger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
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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
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The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.
— Pope John Paul II
Who Wrote These Prolonged Quotes
119 authors contributed a total of 137 Prolonged Quotes, led by these top contributors: