Adam Foulds Quotes, Book Quotes, Long Quotes

I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

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As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said, 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.'

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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

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As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

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I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).

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That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

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Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

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When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

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Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

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Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

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I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Passion Quotes , Long Quotes