Quotes and Sayings About Long
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
-- Alexander Pope -
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
-- Alexander Pope -
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
-- Alexander Pope -
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
-- Alexander Pope -
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
-- Alexander Pope -
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
-- Alexander Pope -
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
-- Alexander Pope -
How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.
-- Alexander Shulgin -
As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
-- Alexander the Great -
You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.
-- Alexander Whyte -
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
Its okay, Beth.I don't want my life to go back to the way it was before i met you.I thought i had it all,but really i was missing something. feel like a completely different person now.This might sound corny,but i feel like i've been asleep for a long time and you've just woken me up...
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Can you at least tell us what these Sevens look like?" He said "could we pick one out in a crowd?" "A long time ago, they used to appear wearing robes and golden girtles," Ivy explained. "They sound like losers," Xavier muttered.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren't laughing anymore.
-- Alexandra Potter -
You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.
-- Alexandra Ripley -
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]
-- Alexandre Dumas -
No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
-- Alexis Carrel -
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
-- Alfie Kohn -
In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.
-- Alfie Kohn -
It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
I was only driven to be the best and it was very disheartening sometimes that it took me so long to start getting my voice heard. That certainly started with television, but it was never because of where I came from, it was because people saw something in me.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
