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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
P. J. O'Rourke

Often, Makes, Older

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide

Good, Follow, Bent

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves

Simple, Attention, Act

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift

Live, Old, Wishes

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
John Dryden

Anger, Mind, Thoughts

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Before, York, London

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Thomas Huxley

Truth, Sense, Run

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Pat Riley

Success, Leadership, Position

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
Doug Coupland

Car, American, Hit

No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
Jim Carrey

Career, Show, Process

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Miller

Truth, Matter, Lives

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell

Reason, Fail, Run

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Carl Sandburg

Happen, Old, Often

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Mind, Others

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham

Age, Old, Youth

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
Mason Cooley

Enough, Obvious, Dissolves

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Justice, Gun, Stand

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Jean Dubuffet

Away, Goodbye, Expect

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
Patrick Swayze

Life, Future, Light

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Robert W. Service

Life, Woman, Wine

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Henry Miller

Men, Live, Thought

For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.
Tom Hiddleston

Time, Everyone, Worth

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham

Women, Makes, Hollywood

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
W. Somerset Maugham

After, Baby, Era

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice Walker

Time, Thought, Often

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
Dennis Miller

Nothing, Wrong, Shallow

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
Rita Rudner

Dog, Feet, Begun

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
Julia Roberts

Speak, Attention, Paid

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