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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground. Votes: 4

J. D. Salinger

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A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting. Votes: 3

Andrea Brown

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Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest. Votes: 3

Scott McClanahan

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Life, if well lived, is long enough. Votes: 2

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair. Votes: 2

Erich von Stroheim

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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. Votes: 2

Gustave Flaubert

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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. Votes: 2

Randy Pausch

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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen. Votes: 2

H. Jon Benjamin

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If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves. Votes: 2

Mason Cooley

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If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen. Votes: 2

George Halas

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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Votes: 2

Leonardo da Vinci

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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Votes: 2

Hermann Hesse

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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Votes: 2

Helen Keller

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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. Votes: 2

Arthur Bloch

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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. Votes: 2

Art Buchwald

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Votes: 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. Votes: 2

A. J. Liebling

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I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable. Votes: 2

Edward Klein

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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. Votes: 2

James Thurber

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I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough. Votes: 2

Aung San Suu Kyi

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If you live long enough, you'll experience everything. Votes: 1

Robert Torricelli

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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. Votes: 1

C. S. Lewis

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You have delighted us long enough. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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You must persistence long enough to triumph. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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You should persist long enough to conquer. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough. Votes: 0

Eric Chaisson

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If I persist long enough I will win. Votes: 0

Og Mandino

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Life isn't long enough for love and art. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Walk long enough and we all trade places. Votes: 0

Mark Nepo

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You must endure long enough to be victorious. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold. Votes: 0

George Herbert

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Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace. Votes: 0

Spike Lee

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Stand high long enough and your lightning will come. Votes: 0

William Gibson

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Anything can become music if listened to long enough Votes: 0

Jeff Noon

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Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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You become a serious novelist by living long enough. Votes: 0

Don DeLillo

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Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys. Votes: 0

Charles Goodnight

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Money isn't everything as long as you have enough. Votes: 0

Malcolm Forbes

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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it. Votes: 0

Petrarch

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck. Votes: 0

David Hasselhoff

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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. Votes: 0

John Irving

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I can't promise you forever, because that's not long enough. Votes: 0

Jasinda Wilder

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The days are long enough for those who use them. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity. Votes: 0

Jack Nicholson

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As long as we live there is never enough singing. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. Votes: 0

Ronald Coase

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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. Votes: 0

Randy Pausch

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Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught. Votes: 0

Steve Fowler

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Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets? Votes: 0

Tom Peters

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If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel. Votes: 0

Penelope Douglas

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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers. Votes: 0

Robert Louis Stevenson

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If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine. Votes: 0

Lisa Kleypas

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them. Votes: 0

Clinton D. McKinnon

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If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen Votes: 0

Jim Davis

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I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments. Votes: 0

Julius Caesar

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however long we have to live, there are never enough springs. Votes: 0

P. D. James

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If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth Votes: 0

Alan K. Simpson

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If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related. Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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We've practiced loving long enough, let's come at last to hate. Votes: 0

Georg Herwegh

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After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke Votes: 0

Hermann Hesse

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If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth. Votes: 0

Joseph Goebbels

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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Time abides long enough for those who make use of it. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible. Votes: 0

Barry Manilow

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Things will get better if you just hold out long enough. Votes: 0

Desmond Dekker

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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films. Votes: 0

Abel Ferrara

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If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. Votes: 0

Katharine Hepburn

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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance Votes: 0

Elizabeth Goudge

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If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable. Votes: 0

Josephine Tey

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You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain. Votes: 0

Ernest Borgnine

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sometimes you just gotta trust that your secret's been kept long enough. Votes: 0

Anne Cameron

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If you think about it long enough, you'll see that it's obvious. Votes: 0

Saul Gorn

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If you're paranoid long enough, sooner or later you're gonna be right. Votes: 0

Kinky Friedman

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If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually. Votes: 0

Dave Gahan

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I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. Votes: 0

Robert Mapplethorpe

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I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock. Votes: 0

Michael Reagan

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The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. Votes: 0

Alan Bennett

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. Votes: 0

David J. Farber

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You lie long enough and you start to get used to it. Votes: 0

Pittacus Lore

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I'll forget about you long enough to forget why I need to Votes: 0

Matt Nathanson

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I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning. Votes: 0

Buddy Rich

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Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero. Votes: 0

Michael Caine

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. Votes: 0

Groucho Marx

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Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there ... Votes: 0

Timo Tjahjanto

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I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work. Votes: 0

Cecelia Ahern

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A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about. Votes: 0

Doug Larson

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With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it. Votes: 0

Earl Nightingale

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Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. Votes: 0

Jeff Vandermeer

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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness. Votes: 0

Alan Garner

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Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. Votes: 0

Robert Towne

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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer. Votes: 0

George Carlin

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I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators. Votes: 0

Mother Jones

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On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire. Votes: 0

Gillian Marchenko

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If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way, Votes: 0

Paul Baloche

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If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. Votes: 0

Cory Doctorow

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I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren't laughing anymore. Votes: 0

Alexandra Potter

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My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn't change on him. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater

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If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance Votes: 0

George Carlin

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Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think? Votes: 0

Kitty Kelley

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We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves. Votes: 0

Erich Schiffmann

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No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. Votes: 0

Roger Ebert

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Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it. Votes: 0

H. Rider Haggard

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Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it. Votes: 0

Adolf Hitler

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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell. Votes: 0

Patrick Ness

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As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me. Votes: 0

Lil Wayne

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If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it. Votes: 0

Tony Robbins

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If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think. Votes: 0

Carol Bartz

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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain. Votes: 0

Aaron Eckhart

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I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work. Votes: 0

Louis D. Brandeis

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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity. Votes: 0

Mark Andrus

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If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal. Votes: 0

Jack Canfield

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Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn Votes: 0

Kelley Armstrong

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Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising. Votes: 0

Tracy Chevalier

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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed. Votes: 0

Yanni

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Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Warren

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I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you. Votes: 0

Paul Butterfield

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I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes. Votes: 0

Junot Diaz

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Follow your footprints long enough and they will turn into those of a beast." Votes: 0

Philipp Meyer

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If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined. Votes: 0

Michael Crichton

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Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else. Votes: 0

Samuel R. Delany

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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end Votes: 0

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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You're right John! I can't see you! Your movies aren't in theaters long enough! Votes: 0

The Miz

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I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions. Votes: 0

Biz Stone

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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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Took you long enough!,' she said, and planted a kiss on his lips. Votes: 0

Jessica Day George

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the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough. Votes: 0

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. Votes: 0

Lynn Davies

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Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength. Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. Votes: 0

Mary Kay Ash

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The power of faith is suspending judgment long enough to gain the rewards available. Votes: 0

Marshall Sylver

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Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "IsnÂt that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!" Votes: 0

Alice Freeman Palmer

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People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control. Votes: 0

Hilton Als

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I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that. Votes: 0

Agatha Christie

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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big. Votes: 0

Steve Kanaly

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May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it. Votes: 0

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke. Votes: 0

Hermann Hesse

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Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough. Votes: 0

Joe Cowley

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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. Votes: 0

Simone de Beauvoir

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Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. Votes: 0

Sarah McLachlan

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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something. Votes: 0

Patti Smith

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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. Votes: 0

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I've never had a dream that didn't come true, if I waited long enough. Votes: 0

Raymond Massey

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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough. Votes: 0

Edie Falco

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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it. Votes: 0

Marilyn Meberg

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You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die. Votes: 0

Dave Pelzer

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A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style...like me. Votes: 0

Burt Reynolds

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Everybody should be lucky enough to live as long as I have and be happy. Votes: 0

Delbert McClinton

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If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone. Votes: 0

Ernie Pyle

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That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else. Votes: 0

Charlie Chaplin

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A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough. Votes: 0

Manmohan Singh

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I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style. Votes: 0

John Prine

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How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test? Votes: 0

Prince Philip

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Look long enough, out or in, and you'll be glad you are who you are. Votes: 0

Susan Vreeland

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If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason. Votes: 0

Mort Sahl

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But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. Votes: 0

Keith Miller

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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Votes: 0

Marilynne Robinson

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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Votes: 0

Stephen Leacock

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The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree. Votes: 0

Brian Weiss

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Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen Votes: 0

Mercedes Lackey

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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. Votes: 0

Earl Wilson

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But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough. Votes: 0

Sarah Silverman

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A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution. Votes: 0

Alan Cohen

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If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car. Votes: 0

Art Alexakis

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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough. Votes: 0

Theodore Sturgeon

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Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay. Votes: 0

Jane Hirshfield

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Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great? Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson. Votes: 0

Mike Rogers

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You can have everything you want as long as you don't want it badly enough. Votes: 0

Yogi Berra

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No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something Votes: 0

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed. Votes: 0

Martha Gellhorn

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If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME. Votes: 0

Burt Reynolds

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If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. Votes: 0

Ernie Pyle

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Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career. Votes: 0

Chris Penn

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There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly. Votes: 0

Ronald Firbank

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Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it? Votes: 0

Robert Jordan

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If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people. Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times. Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons. Votes: 0

Cary Elwes

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There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away Votes: 0

Jeff Buckley

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Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great? Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun. Votes: 0

Marilyn vos Savant

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When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence. Votes: 0

E.B. Hudspeth

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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf. Votes: 0

Aldo Leopold

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing. Votes: 0

Paula Malcomson

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I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly Votes: 0

Greg Chappell

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Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath. Votes: 0

Huangbo Xiyun

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Weâre not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term. Votes: 0

Lindsey Graham

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If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself. Votes: 0

Ernie J Zelinski

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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault? Votes: 0

Lillian Hellman

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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu

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So often we quit on the first failure. We must persistent long enough to achieve success. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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If you want something hard enough you'll get it, so long as you fight for it. Votes: 0

Isabella Poretsis

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I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room Votes: 0

Mercedes McCambridge

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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough. Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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If you live in the dark long enough, you start to forget what light looks like. Votes: 0

Rachel Vincent

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When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt. Votes: 0

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits. Votes: 0

Jordan Knight

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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. Votes: 0

Mercedes McCambridge

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If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place. Votes: 0

Randall Jarrell

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I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. Votes: 0

John Green

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Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture. Votes: 0

Henry R Brandt

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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. Votes: 0

Norman Vincent Peale

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I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system. Votes: 0

Stephen Hawking

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Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity. Votes: 0

Howell Raines

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Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. Votes: 0

Henry Williamson

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You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit Votes: 0

David Ryan

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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. Votes: 0

Colum McCann

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A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day. Votes: 0

Richard M. Kovacevich

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I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough. Votes: 0

Hugh Grant

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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history. Votes: 0

Louise Erdrich

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You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust! Votes: 0

Mooji

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It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough. Votes: 0

Randy Pausch

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You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit. Votes: 0

David Ryan

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If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. Votes: 0

Tupac Shakur

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You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you. Votes: 0

Terrence Howard

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You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg. Votes: 0

Melissa de la Cruz

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A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life. Votes: 0

Mary Oliver

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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand. Votes: 0

Joni Mitchell

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Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue. Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade. Votes: 0

C.F. Joyce

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Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away. Votes: 0

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered Votes: 0

Jean Ingelow

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dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so... Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God. Votes: 0

Lord Kelvin

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The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride. Votes: 0

Ted McGinley

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Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. Votes: 0

Archimedes

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Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. Votes: 0

Irving Berlin

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Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough. Votes: 0

Fran Lebowitz

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I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost. Votes: 0

Joe Manganiello

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I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. Votes: 0

Andy Warhol

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My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough. Votes: 0

Hugo Claus

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As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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forever can never be long enough for me to feel that i've had long enough with you Votes: 0

Train

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We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business. Votes: 0

Charlie Munger

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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire. Votes: 0

Gary W. Keller

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight. Votes: 0

Bruce Lansky

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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away Votes: 0

Ned Vizzini

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Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.-Captain Tagon Votes: 0

Howard Tayler

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Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen. Votes: 0

Keith Sweat

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Votes: 0

Minor White

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You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle. Votes: 0

Patti Davis

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Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world. Votes: 0

Amit Ray

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If you work on anything long enough hopefully you'll get better and I feel like we're just growing. Votes: 0

Sharon Van Etten

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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. Votes: 0

John Corey Whaley

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Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. Votes: 0

Louis Auchincloss

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Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you. Votes: 0

Mark Lawrence

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He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President. Votes: 0

William C. Bryant

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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl. Votes: 0

Emile Zola

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Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. Votes: 0

Vera Nazarian

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A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough. Votes: 0

Mitch Albom

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Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime. Votes: 0

Judy LaMarsh

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I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy. Votes: 0

Corra May Harris

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Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses. Votes: 0

Bernd Heinrich

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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it. Votes: 0

Ralph Stanley

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Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect. Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein

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Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at. Votes: 0

Matthew McConaughey

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If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen Votes: 0

Tracy Kidder

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I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion. Votes: 0

Rod Stewart

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If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen. Votes: 0

Tracy Kidder

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Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough. Votes: 0

E. Nesbit

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The strangest experiences in life are apt to lose their effect if dwelt upon long enough. ("Furze Hollow") Votes: 0

A.M. Burrage

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God doesnât need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. Votes: 0

Barbara Kingsolver

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The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections. Votes: 0

Peter Lynch

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I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. Votes: 0

Orson Scott Card

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You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one. Votes: 0

Mickey Mantle

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No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things. Votes: 0

Richard Paul Evans

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Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Votes: 0

Harvey Dent

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We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough. Votes: 0

Victor LaValle

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Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win. Votes: 0

David Cottrell

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The people who get what theyâre after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough. Votes: 0

Austin Kleon

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Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers. Votes: 0

Jonathan Maberry

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Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws. Votes: 0

Robert Dallek

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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. Votes: 0

Sam Levenson

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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. Votes: 0

Ira Glass

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Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. Votes: 0

Julien Smith

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I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances. Votes: 0

Anne Michaels

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Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough. Votes: 0

Oscar Arias

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Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it! Votes: 0

J. R. R. Tolkien

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I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one. Votes: 0

Deborah Copaken Kogan

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I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. Votes: 0

Constance Baker Motley

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I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough. Votes: 0

Francois Truffaut

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You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasnt pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking. Votes: 0

Hattie Morahan

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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Votes: 0

David Honegger

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I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned. Votes: 0

Billy Joel

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I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality. Votes: 0

Maureen Johnson

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Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes. Votes: 0

John Waters

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Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you. Votes: 0

Ursula Parrott

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I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. Votes: 0

Hunter S. Thompson

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Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one's thoughts Votes: 0

Nick Bantock

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It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another. Votes: 0

Mary Anne Radmacher

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I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough. Votes: 0

Dewitt Bodeen

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Have you noticed that if you leave the laundry in the hamper long enough, it's ready to wear again? Votes: 0

Elayne Boosler

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Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. Votes: 0

Lynn Abbey

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There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it. Votes: 0

Shirley Booth

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if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul. Votes: 0

Corra May Harris

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You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it." Votes: 0

Kent Allan Rees

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If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like. Votes: 0

Kinky Friedman

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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. Votes: 0

Groucho Marx

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... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it. Votes: 0

Eleanor Porter

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What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place. Votes: 0

Daniel Kemmis

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Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared. Votes: 0

Ruth Gordon

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I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough. Votes: 0

Elisabeth Marbury

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It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over. Votes: 0

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. Votes: 0

Don Marquis

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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Votes: 0

Archimedes

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If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work. Votes: 0

Joseph Barrell

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I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything. Votes: 0

Ed Asner

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It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . . Votes: 0

Dorothy Richardson

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If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again. Votes: 0

George Burns

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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer. Votes: 0

D. A. Carson

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If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had. Votes: 0

I. F. Stone

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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing. Votes: 0

Mike Hawkins

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I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger. Votes: 0

Steve Martin

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This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough. Votes: 0

Dennis Lehane

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Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough. Votes: 0

Perry Brass

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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. Votes: 0

Irving Penn

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It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.... Votes: 0

Nicole Richie

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Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important Votes: 0

Pedro Juan Gutierrez

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A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories. Votes: 0

Michel De Certeau

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Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? Votes: 0

Joseph N. Welch

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There are so many happy memories that will be made. You just have to live long enough to get to them. Votes: 0

Joel Burns

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One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. Votes: 0

Michael Gove

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So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Votes: 0

Roger Nash Baldwin

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A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. Votes: 0

Ronald Knox

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But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last. Votes: 0

Daphne Guinness

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If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying. Votes: 0

Joel Osteen

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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it. Votes: 0

Richie Benaud

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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. Votes: 0

Raymond Carver

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I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great. Votes: 0

Joanna Newsom

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If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which. Votes: 0

Adam West

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Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over. Votes: 0

Gary W. Keller

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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon. Votes: 0

Henny Youngman

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It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it. Votes: 0

Libba Bray

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Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair? Votes: 0

Tennessee Williams

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I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly. Votes: 0

Vince McMahon

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After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside. Votes: 0

Zooey Deschanel

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One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture. Votes: 0

Duane Michals

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Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. Votes: 0

Fulton J. Sheen

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind. Votes: 0

Ben Aaronovitch

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Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this. Votes: 0

Nick Hornby

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They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that. Votes: 0

Andy Garcia

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A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners. Votes: 0

Naa Shalman

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When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around? Votes: 0

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough. Votes: 0

Irwin Shaw

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See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else. Votes: 0

Jim Butcher

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If you're powerful enough you can even determine whom you will meet and whom you will avoid long before you meet them. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful. Votes: 0

Jason Calacanis

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I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. Votes: 0

Tori Amos

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You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program. Votes: 0

George McGovern

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I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production. Votes: 0

David Ayer

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I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow. Votes: 0

Jeff Beck

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I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real. Votes: 0

Charles Baxter

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Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday. Votes: 0

Cornelia Funke

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Long are the lives of elves' he said.Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard. Votes: 0

William King

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I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here." Votes: 0

Angela Lansbury

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He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time. Votes: 0

Brian Andreas

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The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually. Votes: 0

Kirk Douglas

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If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go. Votes: 0

Jeff Bridges

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I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction. Votes: 0

Daniel Woodrell

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business. Votes: 0

Frank Cady

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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of. Votes: 0

Patti Smith

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If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light. Votes: 0

Brian O'Driscoll

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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why? Votes: 0

Joseph Wood Krutch

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I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them. Votes: 0

John Mason Brown

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Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term. Votes: 0

Robert Kiyosaki

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I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long. Votes: 0

Anna Faris

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In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot. Votes: 0

Douglas Adams

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If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov

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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant. Votes: 0

Hanya Yanagihara

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I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company. Votes: 0

Don Henley

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You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes. Votes: 0

Willem Dafoe

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Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed Votes: 0

Sam Altman

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I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue. Votes: 0

Sean Connery

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Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. Votes: 0

John Gierach

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Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own. Votes: 0

Mark Wahlberg

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He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical questions. Votes: 0

Diana Gabaldon

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Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long. Votes: 0

Fred Wilson

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You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough; Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company. Votes: 0

Demian Bichir

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It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well. Votes: 0

Francis Quarles

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I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me. Votes: 0

Cilla Black

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Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy. Votes: 0

J. A. Jance

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Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country. Votes: 0

Lalita Tademy

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But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction. Votes: 0

Daniel Woodrell

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I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. Votes: 0

Paulette Goddard

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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease. Votes: 0

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route. Votes: 0

Harriet Walter

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So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice. Votes: 0

Mike Norton

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Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there. Votes: 0

Julien Green

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I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. Votes: 0

Virgil Thomson

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I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe. Votes: 0

Mitt Romney

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I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough Votes: 0

Sebastian Barry

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With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign. Votes: 0

Rudy Giuliani

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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else. Votes: 0

Mark Haddon

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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest Votes: 0

Pema Chodron

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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings. Votes: 0

Henry B. Eyring

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Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen. Votes: 0

Mark Hart

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It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think? Votes: 0

Eoin Colfer

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Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse. Votes: 0

Sally Stanford

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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff. Votes: 0

Tom Petty

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I'm looking for something to laugh over. After long enough, your body just needs to keep the hydration. You can't keep crying it out. Votes: 0

Brie Larson

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[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style. Votes: 0

Dorothy Parker

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I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers. Votes: 0

Mick Dennis

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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you. Votes: 0

Damon Runyon

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Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions. Votes: 0

Gloria Swanson

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time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough Votes: 0

e. e. cummings

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You don't have to believe in God, just know that there is a plan for you if you wait long enough to find it. Votes: 0

Mandy Schuster

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I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought. Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I do think there are trends in your life once you've been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim. Votes: 0

Merritt Wever

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I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it. Votes: 0

Aung San Suu Kyi

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I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim. Votes: 0

Merritt Wever

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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon? Votes: 0

Tennessee Williams

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If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising. Votes: 0

Laurell K. Hamilton

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What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage. Votes: 0

Daniel Radcliffe

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In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85. Votes: 0

Robert Fogel

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You'll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know. Votes: 0

Jerry Spinelli

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In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium! Votes: 0

Jacques Rogge

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If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'. Votes: 0

Seth MacFarlane

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I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough. Votes: 0

Kinky Friedman

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Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. Votes: 0

Arnold Bennett

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We must try to contribute joy to the world. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out. Votes: 0

Roger Ebert

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A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel. Votes: 0

Julian Barnes

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i fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change... Votes: 0

Ani DiFranco

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It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good. Votes: 0

Pope John Paul II

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Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess. Votes: 0

William Ewart Napier

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Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song Votes: 0

Karen Carpenter

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Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot. Votes: 0

Tony Robbins

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In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer. Votes: 0

Freddy Fender

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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become. Votes: 0

Kirsten Gillibrand

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The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world. Votes: 0

Tomas Borge

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I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough to fool around. Votes: 0

Morgan Freeman

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When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with. Votes: 0

Marsha Norman

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I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him.Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all. Votes: 0

Sarah J. Maas

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I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career. Votes: 0

Eric Balfour

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Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it. Votes: 0

Sting

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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time. Votes: 0

Matt Stone

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Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid. Votes: 0

Lawrence Block

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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay. Votes: 0

Rudyard Kipling

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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before. Votes: 0

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again. Votes: 0

Sarah Dessen

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A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough. Votes: 0

Robert Jordan

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No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand Votes: 0

Robert Jordan

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I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it. Votes: 0

I. M. Pei

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When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

Danger Mouse

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To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

Vera John-Steiner

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Don't you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you'll soon find its meaning.

Gail Tsukiyama

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You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Henry David Thoreau

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I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

Renita J. Weems

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Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

Stephanie Klein

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Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.

Hannu Rajaniemi

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If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.

J. D. Salinger

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There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.

Kenneth Grahame

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Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.

N.J. Berrill

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There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

Paul J. Meyer

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Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

Phyllis McGinley

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In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

Tahir Shah

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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

James Thurber

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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

William Faulkner

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I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing images will come.

Ami Vitale

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You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

Rick Heinrichs

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Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

Peter Meinke

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Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

Robert M. Sapolsky

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The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

Orson Scott Card

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[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

Jonah Goldberg

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It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.

K. Anders Ericsson

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He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

Nicholas Sparks

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Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

Nick Murray

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Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?

Rick Bass

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And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

Sharon Shinn

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It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

Sheena Easton

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The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take action

Claude C. Hopkins

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Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

Frank Pittman

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A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Jacob Braude

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The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.

John Vaillant

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If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

Ford Madox Ford

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If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.

Jimmy Rollins

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Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.

Winkie Pratney

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Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

Peter Lynch

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To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Magnus wants to shout at me, donât you, Magnus?â (Jace) âYes,â Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl. -pg.275-

Cassandra Clare

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Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Hugh Howey

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Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.

Maggie Stiefvater

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We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

Barack Obama

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For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

Gertrude Atherton

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.....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

Jeremy Narby

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A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

Don DeLillo

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To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

Annika Sorenstam

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I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

Evelyn Waugh

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If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.

Jeanette Winterson

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My friends and family definitely helped me with the biggest obstacle in my life, which was just staying in L.A. long enough to really give it a shot.

Robbie Amell

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Spike Milligan

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I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.

Wayne White

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If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don't have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long enough for our country to rotate out of the way.

Emo Philips

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You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

Martin Mull

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I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

Martin Sheen

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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

Christopher Dawson

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Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Bill Vaughan

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Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.

Peter Gzowski

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When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

Chris Hardwick

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Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

Dave Morin

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The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.

Seth Klarman

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I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions.

Steve Jobs

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Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

Eugene Kennedy

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Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough!

Jim Rohn

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I think I always have the same style. But if I see a trend long enough, I might catch on to it. But it has to be around for a while for me to warm up to it.

Elsa Hosk

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I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready.

Nas

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I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.

William J. Clinton

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No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

Dan Simmons

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Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

John D. MacDonald

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When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.

Lionel Shriver

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Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

Mercedes Lackey

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Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

Terence McKenna

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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Alan Bennett

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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Aldous Huxley

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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

Ernest Hemingway

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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

Hermann Hesse

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But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay.

Daniel Handler

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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

Victor Hugo

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Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

William James

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If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

Brian Tracy

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The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

Robert Adams

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Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

Stef Penney

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Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

Walt Whitman

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If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.

Linda Perhacs

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I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

Aretha Franklin

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I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9

Grace Slick

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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

A. Whitney Brown

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Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

Alison Croggon

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If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word âcoincidenceâ exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.

Chuck Klosterman

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Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

Suzanne Collins

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What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

Mark Twain

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Time is too short in this one life, to be able to do everything, but it definitely is long enough at least to be able to develop the will to do anything & everything...

Sujit Lalwani

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I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

Arca

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She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.

Markus Zusak

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if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

Phyllis Bottome

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I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment.

Kyle Parker

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Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

Nicole Krauss

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Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.

Randy Pausch

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Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.

Deshaun Watson

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The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on " unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

Jean Edward Smith

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That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject

Leonard Nimoy

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Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

Silas House

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I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

Stephane Mallarme

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I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.

Wendy Mass

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If you hold this feeling of "I' long enough and strongly enough, the false "I' will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent "I', consciousness itself

Ramana Maharshi

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I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

Christine Sneed

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There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

Jason Diamond

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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

Maya Angelou

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If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

Muriel Rukeyser

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We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Prince Charles

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Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.

Frederick William Faber

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I guess if we do enough shows and keep doing it long enough, then people will get the picture. But I can't really be bothered if they don't get the picture. That's not my concern.

John Britt Daniel

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Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

Tim Winton

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He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.

Neil Gaiman

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Everyone has been to school. Everyone has a sense of classroom dynamics and politics, regardless of subject matter. And if you've lived long enough, everyone hits a big life transition.

Tommy Dewey

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The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

Hannah More

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The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind canât seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.

Deb Caletti

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Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

Rob Lowe

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The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

Donal Henahan

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The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

Nancy Mairs

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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

Samuel Beckett

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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestler

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The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

Ben Harper

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What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

Jojo Moyes

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I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.

Tony Romo

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One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

James E. Faust

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I think there's a lot of different things that factor into playing good defense, and you just can't say, "All right, if we just hold on to the ball long enough, we're going to play good defense."

Chip Kelly

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A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.

David Steindl-Rast

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Whenever I'm feeling a bit down, I always visit the local children's hospital. Knowing that those cancer-kids wont be able to live long enough to surpass me in fame just warms my heart, you know?

Zach Braff

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Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

Charlie Munger

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When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.

Claude Bernard

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Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Denis Waitley

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One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

Mitch Harper

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Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

Bruce Catton

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Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

George Santayana

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Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But Iâm afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning

Andy Warhol

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Do something you like that you feel is important. Don't worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich.

Peter Menzel

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Cut brambles long enough, Sprout after sprout, And the lotus will bloom Of its own accord: Already waiting in the clearing, The single image of light. The day you see this, That day you will become it.

Sun Bu'er

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I have heterochromia, meaning that one eye has two split colours. It's a diagonal cut in half. It's amazing how many people don't know that until they meet me and we talk long enough for them to see it.

Dan Payne

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True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at an object long enough to tag it with a name.

Ross Parmenter

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He's playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he's doing and I don't. Don't blame me because he's a better manipulator than I am I haven't been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

Stephenie Meyer

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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.

Will Rogers

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There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November day, a bittern that stays only long enough to be remembered.

Ann Zwinger

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I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I will never live long enough to do the work I want to do: the books I would like to write, the ideas I would like to explore.

David McCullough

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The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

David Rakoff

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Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough "sustain it, be true to it"we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

Marie-Louise von Franz

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May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God.

Rod McKuen

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I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

Tom Jones

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A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough in the process, we can always ask, "Is there more that you wanted to say"?

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

Greg Iles

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Commitment to an idea that has the power to transform you personally in any way is a vision worth nurturing. The bottom line is,you need to remain committed to a vision long enough to see it vome to fruition.

Caroline Myss

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Prayers are answered in one of four ways," she said. "Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . ." She paused long enough for my impatience to show. "And what's the fourth answer?" "Wait," she said.

Megan McCafferty

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There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.

William James

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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

Isaac Asimov

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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

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Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back. -Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao

Nobuhiro Watsuki

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âI forgive you for stealing my shawl." She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay.

Erin Morgenstern

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The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.

R. Scott Bakker

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Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

Henry David Thoreau

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I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.

Chris Hardwick

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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

Jack Bruce

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I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.

Jack White

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It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

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What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.

Swami Vivekananda

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Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

Aleister Crowley

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It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

Dan Savage

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Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

Jennifer L. Holm

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I'M HOPELESS, because I've lived long enough to expect things like this to continue to happen. I'm not surprised and at some point my little children are going to inherit the weight of being a minority and all that it entails.

Benjamin Watson

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With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.

Billy Corgan

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I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.

Bruce Dern

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I believe in detox. I think detox is smart. You've got a guy who's in an opiate cycle or a dope cycle or something, and he can't get out of it. You shut him down long enough so at least his body can start working for itself again.

Charlie Sheen

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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

Randy Pausch

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What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

Neil Gaiman

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Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.

Fanny Fern

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She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

Marilynne Robinson

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Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for.[...]

David Eddings

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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. Youâve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

Bill Watterson

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If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.

Paul Schullery

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I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.

Dorothy Moore

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There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiralling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true - If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

Cassandra Clare

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Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You run into roadblocks and barriers. You overcome obstacles. You fall down. I mean you have to fall down to learn to stand up.

Chuck Ragan

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The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

Maria Edgeworth

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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.

Abraham Lincoln

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If you cannot observe it, then you must meditate, contemplate and imagine it. It is wondrous that if you contemplate long enough, then eventually you will see it. When you are able to see something that cannot really be seen - that is wondrous.

Henry Chang

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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

John Gregory Brown

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Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.

Mark Nepo

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Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.

Annie Dillard

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You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn't last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind." That's how it is with dreams," said Priscilla. "They're the perfect crime.

Tom Robbins

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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

Ann Patchett

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Donât judge yourself by othersâ standardsâ¦have your own. And donât get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

Berry Gordy

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I don't think George Bush is a good president by any imagination, but when he said, 'If you're talking to Al-Quaeda, we want to know what it's about,' it just proves one thing: If you're president long enough, you will one day say something that is true.

Bill Maher

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I have lived long enough in the world, Sir, . . . to know that the safety of a minister lies in his having the approbation of this House. Former ministers, Sir, neglected this, and therefore they fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it...

Robert Walpole

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Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.

Daniel Dennett

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It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees everything differently. It is not that at all. Suffering isn't going to go away; the one who suffers is going to go away.

Ayya Khema

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Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.

William Deresiewicz

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As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

Ann Brashares

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Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine; an interminable one is disgraceful.

Anna Quindlen

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Yeah, I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see your face when I changed over. (Wren) No, you don't. I assure you, it wasn't pretty. (Maggie) There's never anything about you that isn't pretty, Maggie. You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. (Wren)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

George Bernard Shaw

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Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.

Mark Lilla

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George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

Will Rogers

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(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

Willie Nelson

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Hale looked at Macey, who added, "Seven minutes since shots fired." "Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?" "Not long enough if they want a clean exit," she told him. Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.

Ally Carter

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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

Norman Vincent Peale

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The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society â we are on the eve of universal change.

Eugene V. Debs

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Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

Gerry Spence

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We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.

Barack Obama

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Quantitative easing is just the latest chapter in the Federal Reserve's hundred-year history of failure. (...) The American people have suffered long enough under a monetary policy controlled by an unaccountable, secretive central bank. It is time to finally audit - and then end - the Fed.

Ron Paul

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Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

Ian Caldwell

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Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.

Ronald Dworkin

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