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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron

Nature, Feeling, Passion

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
Clint Eastwood

Best, Until, While

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill

Good, Freedom, Others

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Days, Run

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian

Dreams, Good, Nowhere

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

Age, Live, Enough

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich

Life, Women, Respect

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus

Death, Here, Longer

Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Enough, Lived

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell

Question, Granted, Healthy

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

Heart, Die, Since

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney

Life, Living, Old

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan

Science, Reason, Universe

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Love, God

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci

Time, Enough, Anyone

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
Nina Hagen

Karma, Care, Changes

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.
Mitt Romney

Time, Fear, Live

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
Carroll O'Connor

Sad, Job, Playing

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

Great, Enemy, Real

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

Him, Enough, Put

I meet with people all day long.
Hillary Clinton

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
Hillary Clinton

Politics, Society, Husband

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour

Politics, Wrong, Left

Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo

Crime, Despotism

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu

Money, Lives, Soldiers

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward

Love, Criticism, Praise

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day

Best, Judge, Mean

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Reason, Since

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo

Mind, Before, Sight

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown

Time, Today, Someone

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