Alice Walker Quotes, Long Quotes, Personality Quotes

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

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There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Doctrine Quotes

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Long Quotes , Noise Quotes

Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

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With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

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Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Long Quotes , Life And Death Quotes

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

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Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Long Quotes , Spirituality Quotes

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

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And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Long Quotes , May Quotes

Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wife Quotes , Long Quotes

There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Long Quotes

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Long Quotes , May Quotes

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.

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Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Long Quotes , Community Quotes

But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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