“ Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ”
- Jim Morrison- Copy
- 3.5K
“ How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
- 2.1K
“ None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 3.5K
“ You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. ”
- Lou Holtz- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
- 2.2K
“ He seems to have gone to his icebox, pulled out all the cold obsessions, mixed them in a bowl, beat too lightly and baked too long. ”
- John Leonard- Copy
- 275
“ Integrity can neither be lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived nor, I believe, in the long run denied. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
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“ Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it… the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Whether it's a crisis or not depends on how long these high prices are sustained. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
- 436
“ Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
- 299
“ Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
- 207
“ Absence makes the hear grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget. ”
- Thomas Haynes Bayly- Copy
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“ But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. ”
- Louise Bogan- Copy
- 4K
“ By medicine life may be prolonged. Yet, death will seize the doctor too. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3K
“ If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
- 610
“ Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ”
- Konstantin Stanislavisky- Copy
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“ The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
- 323
“ Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
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