Quotes with long-suffering

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  • Juvenal Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • C. Robert Kehler 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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  • Bernard Lagat Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.
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  • Marcel Proust Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Barry Ritholtz 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.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bertolt Brecht 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.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Those days of my youth [O, Ihr Zeiten meiner Jugen
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Rupert Brooke Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Boris Pasternak 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!
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alfredo La Mont 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
    Reader's Digest, February 1992
    Alfredo La Mont
    American writer
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  • Anita Brookner Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Henry Drummond On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Sand Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • C. Thomas Howell 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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  • E. M. Forster One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Jane Austen One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 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.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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