Quotes 821 till 840 of 1404.
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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.
Source: The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 -
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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Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
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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 God said to Abraham, Kill me a son.
Abe says, Man, you must be puttin' me on.
God say, No. Abe say, What?
God say, You can do what you want Abe, but
the next time you see me comin' you better run.
Well Abe says, Where do you want this killin' done?
God says, Out on Highway 61.Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965) -
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 planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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One of the most moving aspects of life is how long the deepest memories stay with us.
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