One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. ForsterRead
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Instant gratification takes too long.
I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.
There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.
No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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.
I'm being followed by a moon shadow_x000D_ _x000D_ Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow..._x000D_ _x000D_ Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light_x000D_ _x000D_ ...and are you going to stay the night?
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.
As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.
Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.
What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.
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