Quotes 761 till 780 of 1310.
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
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Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
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Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.
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Now that we know 'that life is only a stage to play the fool upon for as long as the part amuses us.
Source: The Suicide Club -
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
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Oh the harsh snarl of guitar strings roaring!
Heavenly distensions of our throats!
Trousers stiff with dirt and love! Such whoring!
Long green slimy nights: we were like stoats.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Those days of my youth [O, Ihr Zeiten meiner Jugen -
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
Source: Doctor Zhivago -
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Old Age: That period in life when we no longer care where our wife is going, as long as she doesn't want us to come along
Source: Reader's Digest, February 1992 -
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
Source: 1992
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