Quotes with long-shot

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1204.

  • Philip K. Dick The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • Bob Schieffer The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Richard Rorty The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Lewis Mumford The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • William Cobbett The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • B. B. King The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Lord George Byron The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Aaron Klug The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
    Source: Gettysburg Address, 19-11-1863
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Johnson The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Shakespeare The worst is not. So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
    Source: King Lear IV, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • José Saramago The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Their road will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces, success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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