Prolonged Quotes
137 quotes by 119 authors
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We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen…
— Terence McKenna
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To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of…
— Kamala Markandaya
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If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me…
— Heinz Kohut
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After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated, and the…
— Andrew Jackson
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Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will…
— Noam Chomsky
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There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic…
— Don DeLillo
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Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless…
— Russell Boyd
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Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that…
— John Hodgman
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People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
— Diane Frolov
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Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
— Douglas V. Steere
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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases,…
— Walker Percy
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A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.
— Ronald Colman
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The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence…
— Terence McKenna
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To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at…
— Jacques Barzun
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Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.
— Winston Churchill
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
— William Lyon Phelps
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They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing.…
— Bill Hicks
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If your body is crying out for a change, or crying out that it's unhappy, for goodness sake listen to it. Our bodies aren't machines…
— Simon McKeon
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My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and…
— Winston Churchill
Who Wrote These Prolonged Quotes
119 authors contributed a total of 137 Prolonged Quotes, led by these top contributors: