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“One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.”

Years May Long President Wonder Break Economy Four Economic Election Crisis Track Arguing Campaigns President Obama Four Years Right Track Economic Crisis Surrogates American Economy

Author:Jon Meacham

“Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.”

Long Ends Eye Causes Break Effects Holiness Breaking Down Whiteness

Author:Charles Simeon

“It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.”

Ifs Way Looks Long Attention Break Sun Awareness Buddhism Band Conscious Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Dreams last so long, even after you're gone”

Long Dream Lasts Break Gone Break Up Ex Boyfriend

Author:Jewel

“There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.”

Ifs Men Long Use Would Be Time Courses Evil Principles Break Clear Isolated Associates

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.”

People Long Might Motivational Running Next Opportunity Realizing Chance Deals Pay Break Failing Figures Waste Be Good Rejection Long Runs Next Time Bounce

Author:Seth Godin

“Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.”

Giving Long Running Night Fun Break Clubs All Night

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”

Long Said Ends Whole Home Dream Wanted Lasts Found Strong Heaven Water Break Thousand Tables Bounds Rounds Whole Life Peaceful Fancy Flood Homeless Vessel Long Life Roaming

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.”

“The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.”

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.”

Ifs Men Long Said Natural Break Hell Blood Guts Iron Sweat Verses Rhyme Toil Ladders Chaucer

Book:Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas

Source: Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas

“Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family.”

Years Long Two Running President Talking Break Week Media Our Family End Times Spend Time

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.”

World Years Children Long Reason School Lasts Easy Break Endure Painful Employment Preparation Thirteen

Book:A Language Older Than Words

Source: A Language Older Than Words

“Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.”

“I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.”

Thinking Long I Can Bigs Film Effort Break Chinese

Author:Ang Lee

“I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play.”

Feels Believe Long Play I Believe Break Fairs I Believe In Always Believe Fair Play

Author:Tom Brady

“The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.”

“Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.”

“Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.”

Years Long Stills Hard Names Break Achieve Months Ambition Hundred Reputation Bubbles Toil Soar Clutch Long Day Withering

Book:Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart

Source: Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart

“This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.”

Long Done Break Long Time Asia Breaking Down

Author:Han Suyin

“High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.”

Heart Long Dream Break Duty Hearing Ease Faithful March Camps Faithful Service

Book:Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

“Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.”

Writing Long Doe Form Imagination Break Conscious Wings Mediocrity Cowardice My Imagination Shackles

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.”

“The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.”

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).”

Littles Long Bigs Break Wind Beats Rain Drinking

Author:Francois Rabelais

“We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.”

Long Easy Break Path Our Lives Danger Comfortable Legs Climbing Break A Leg

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”

Want Long Motivational Pain Remember Order Term Pleasure Break Gains Valuable Long Term Short Term Break Through

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.”

Long Art Important Form Break Records Dying Paper Letters Newspapers Glorious Crucial Documents Great American Love Letter Make Or Break Juncture

Author:Nathan Rabin

“No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.”

Littles Long Together Women Interest Break Humour Resolution Little Things Sexism Resentment Schemes Prudent Momentary

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.”

Men Mind Long Seems Spirit Liberty Break Limits Flames Sparks Coercion

Book:Challenge Liberty

Source: Challenge Liberty

“Politicians have a lot to deal with these days. It's a different world. You know who I feel bad for? Arab Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting. Could be their life long dream, and every time they ask for a pamphlet, all hell breaks loose.”

Knows World Want Feels Long Different Dream Asks Deals Break Hell Politician These Days Long Life Crops Different Worlds

Author:Brian Regan

“I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.”

Source: Flying: The Aviation Trilogy

“The only rule Muslims know is to win. It does not matter how. All rules can be broken as long as they win the war. They can lie, they can deceive, they can break their treaties as Muhammad did, they can ambush or use terror, assassinate, massacre the children and bomb civilians. Muslims can even kill each other as long as this improves their chance of winning.”

Knows Children Long Doe War Matter Use Lying Winning Chance Break Broken Terror Bombs Deceiving Civilians Muhammad Treaties Massacres Ambush

Author:Ali Sina

“My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.”

Heart Long Hard Wanted Parent Decision Roles Break Hero Models Role Models Disappoint My Hero

Author:Dick Vitale

“The thing I love about soaps, and from what I know about this is its run in a very old school way, which I like, since I have been doing this entertainment thing for a long time. But I see that there are some new barriers that they can break.”

Knows Way Long Has Beens Running School Break Long Time Entertainment Barriers Soap Old School Things I Love

Author:Darius McCrary

“Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?”

Giving Children Long Ideas Self Sometimes Moments Earth Secret Wonder Break Series Possession Streams Reincarnation Concealed Infallible Utterance Raindrops

Author:Johann Gottfried Herder

“Thus it is in hell; they would die, but they cannot. The wicked shall be always dying but never dead; the smoke of the furnacedascends for ever and ever. Oh! who can endure thus to be ever upon the rack? This word "ever" breaks the heart. Wicked men do now think the Sabbaths long, and think a prayer long; but oh! how long will it be to lie in hell for ever and ever?”

Thinking Men Heart Long Christian Lying Dies Prayer Break Hell Dying Blessing Endure Christian Life Smoke Wicked Sabbath Racks Chastisement Wicked Man

Author:Thomas Watson

“The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word EVER breaks the heart.”

Source: A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy-six Sermons on the Shorter Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture Together with the Art of Divine Contentment ; to which is Added, Christ's Various Fulness

“Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!”

Long Dark Break Middle Spring Christmas Fantastic Dirty Nasty Coats Naughty Great Times Spring Break

Author:John Hughes

“I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.”

Thinking Should Long Done Lasts Left Break Taken Records Should Have Good Things Focused Finished Bubbles Touring

Author:Andrew Bird

“I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.”

Thinking Trying Long Principles Break Remains Dare Sexuality Not Afraid Elegance Taboo Taking Pictures Photogenic

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on me - that perfectionist pressure. And that can work in two ways: It can make you a perfectionist yourself, or it can eventually break you in the long run.”

Thinking Way Kind Long Two Running Break Son Dad Pressure My Dad Long Runs Two Ways Perfectionist

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been, and all kinds of things - more like life. I think photography has colored our vision. We're now in an area where it might break something. I think this is a time. I feel it. I don't know whether I'll be here long enough to experience it. I've no plans to leave yet.”

Thinking Knows Feels Kind Long Enough Might Three Vision Break Plans Photography Areas Cameras All Kinds

Author:David Hockney

“I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.”

Long Lasts Bits Break Rich Rights Strikes Sail Torment Chaotic Plunder Stunned

Book:The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

“We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.”

Long Break Path Danger Legs Climbs Convenient

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.”

Long Certain Social Break Europe Harder Social Systems

Author:Gloria Estefan

“The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and constitutional limitations on government - from full repeal of Obamacare to rolling back multitrillion-dollar deficits. This is not so much a reproach of past Republican conduct as it is a recognition of new opportunities.”

“On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.”

Men Mean Children Long Has Beens Humanity Parent Vision Break Path Our Lives Growing Ten Authority Twenties Agree Sacred Giants Judged Quests Commandments Fullness Moses Pilgrim Growing Children

Author:Sam Keen

“For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go".”