Quotes with long-suffering

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  • Noam Chomsky If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Simone Weil If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Irving If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Carl Sagan If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sagan If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
    The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Gloria Steinem If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Art Buchwald If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • William James If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
    Original: Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • A. N. Wilson If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Arthur Bloch If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • A. J. Liebling If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Bill Laswell If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Bob Newhart If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
    Saint Joan (1924)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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