Quotes with long-suffering

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1292.

  • Carolyn McCarthy With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Brad Delson With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Buddha Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Plato Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • George Orwell Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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  • John Jay Chapman You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Franz Kafka You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Ben Wheatley You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Burt Shavitz You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Mae West You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • John Ciardi You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Warren Buffett You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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