Protracted Quotes

43 quotes by 37 authors

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted. — Sun Tzu
As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness,… — William James
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of… — Hugh Prather
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted. — John Ruskin
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles… — Al Gore
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be… — Eddie Rickenbacker
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported… — Alan Greenspan
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking… — Bill Mollison
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. — Samuel Johnson
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of… — Jane Austen
The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory,… — Alfonso Garcia Robles
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm,… — Alban Berg
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity.… — George Will
People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren't releasing new PR announcements every day.… — Peter Thiel
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty… — Samuel Johnson
Life protracted is protracted woe. — Samuel Johnson
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party. — Don Henley

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