Quotes and Sayings About Long
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
-- Alan Lightman -
When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
-- Alan MooreSource : "Fictional character: Gordon Deitrich". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.
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Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
-- Alan Moore -
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The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.
-- Alan Moore -
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
-- Alan Moore -
We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
-- Alan Moore -
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
-- Alan Perlis -
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
-- Alan Rickman -
If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.
-- Alan Shearer -
I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time.
-- Alan Shearer -
Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.
-- Alan Shepard -
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It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
-- Alan Turing -
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
-- Alan Vega -
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...
-- Alan Watts -
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,†you are not listening.
-- Alan Watts -
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Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction...
-- Alanis Morissette -
How long before my dignity is reclaimed?
-- Alanis Morissette -
As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.
-- Alanis Morissette -
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Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?
-- Albert Allen Bartlett -
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
-- Albert Camus -
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
-- Albert Camus -
But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.
-- Albert Camus -
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There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
-- Albert Camus -
[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
-- Albert Camus -
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.
-- Albert Camus -
But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
-- Albert Camus -
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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
-- Albert Einstein -
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
-- Albert Einstein