Prolonged Quotes

137 quotes by 119 authors

....chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be… — John Diamond
The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually… — Ben Shahn
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is… — Walter J. Phillips
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is… — Theodore Roosevelt
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life… — C.S. Lewis
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn… — Charles Caleb Colton
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But… — Albert Ellis
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or… — James Fenton
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged… — Tom Hodgkinson
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley
True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. — Daniel Kahneman
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country… — Allen Klein
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified… — Milan Kundera
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. — C.S. Lewis
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. — Jim Morrison
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards… — George Orwell
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp… — Arlen Specter
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam… — Helen Thomas
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and… — Abraham Verghese

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119 authors contributed a total of 137 Prolonged Quotes, led by these top contributors: