Quotes with long-shot

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1204.

  • Og Mandino Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Al Spalding Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Carolina Herrera Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles Dickens Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Kofi Annan Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bayard Taylor Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Tony Robbins Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Carole King Way over yonder is a place I have seen
    In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
    Source: Tapestry (1971) Way Over Yonder
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bill Maris We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • James Thurber We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Johnson We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Carl Sagan We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Oscar Wilde We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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