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“He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.”

“There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out.”

Long Two Lord Involved Periods My Family Rings Australia New Zealand Long Periods Of Time Australia And New Zealand

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions”

Long Has Beens Made Ideas Feelings Emotion Events Periods Adults Moved Finished Cards Useless Apology Packs Rats Moved On Long Periods Of Time

Book:The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel

Source: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel

“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”

Long Funny Death Comedy Dying Amount Periods Death And Dying Long Periods Of Time Dying Death Swallowing Small Amounts Someone Dying Dying Love Saliva Someone Who Is Dying

Author:George Carlin

“What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.”

Long Courage Struggle Willing Bears Periods Presidential Sunshine Patriot Valor Long Periods Of Time Acts Of Courage

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.”

People Kind Mean Long Guy Cases Issues Periods One Day Get Up Awful Just One Bad Guys Bangs Captured Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Long Periods Of Time

Author:Dick Cheney

“We have to identify everybody that's here, and there's going to be an appropriate discussion in Congress on how to deal with an individual who has been here maybe for some long period of time. Amnesty is not on the table period. There will be no amnesty in the United States. We're a country of law and the idea that we're going to tell people that somehow or another that that's all forgiven is not going to happen. How we deal with them is a conversation. I don't know if I know all the answers. I want to talk to the American people.”

“However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it!”

“The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.”

Long Today Causes Amount Periods Humorous Cancer Stomach Surgeons Long Periods Of Time Small Amounts Saliva

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.”

Ifs Thinking Long Three Term Failing Willing Periods Perseverance Scales Invention Long Term Misunderstood Three Things Long Periods Of Time Large Scale

Author:Jeff Bezos

“Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.”

Long Made Science Periods Accounts Inevitable Phenomenon Measurement Long Periods Of Time Refining

Author:Charles Francis Richter

“Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.”

Long Play Situation Principles Player Groups Periods Findings Capable Coaching Locks Volleyball Long Periods Of Time

Author:Hugh McCutcheon

“Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.”

Humans Long Remember Technology Learning Teaching Periods Items Presentation Long Periods Of Time

Author:Hermann Ebbinghaus

“Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.”

Long Death Dying Periods Blink Long Periods Of Time

Author:Robin Williams

“What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.”

Knows Want Long Learning Teaching Students Involved Periods Projects Excited Engaged Long Periods Of Time

Author:Howard Gardner

“I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.”

Thinking Want Trying Long Player Periods Remembered Consistent Long Periods Of Time

Author:Dan Marino

“It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.”

Long Figures Periods Figure Skating Long Periods Of Time

Author:Josh Lucas

“I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.”

People Thinking Way Long Character Shows Able Periods Finding Yourself Think Of You Long Periods Of Time

Author:William Petersen

“The energy problems that we face today were built up over a long period of time and are not going to be solved overnight.”

Long Problem Today Faces Energy Periods Built Long Periods Of Time

Author:Dana Perino

“I just haven't found anyone that I want to spend long periods of time with.”

Want Long Found Havens Periods Long Periods Of Time

Author:Kate Moss

“The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.”

Long Running Stuff Periods Quitting Inspirational Running Long Periods Of Time

Author:Russell Simmons

“In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.”

Long Ends Political Sides Periods Valuable Thought Provoking Division Syria Provoking Exploits Ethnicity Long Periods Of Time Bosnia Serbia Kosovo

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete.”

“True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.”

Long Sometimes Steps Greatness Periods Ordinary Happy Consistent New Year Mundane Long Periods Of Time True Greatness

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do.”

Should Long Hard Challenges Sadness Events Periods Disappointment Severe Long Periods Of Time Events In Life

Author:Richard G. Scott

“If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.”

Ifs Long Guy Games Steps Couple Periods Injury Long Periods Of Time

Author:Dirk Nowitzki

“When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.”

Long Two Political Groups Periods Civilization Racism Historical Males Ideology Etc Arrangements Patriarchy Supremacy Long Periods Of Time Feudalism

Author:Kate Millett

“The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing to yield Darwin's predicted pattern, simply looked the other way.”

Way Long Quality Records Periods Clothes Species Patterns Conservative Observation Yield Entity Fossils Emperor Static Long Periods Of Time Stasis New Clothes Recalcitrant

Author:Niles Eldredge

“Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.”

Long Has Beens Force Greater Periods Skills Favors Long Periods Of Time Diffusion

Book:Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.”

People Long Facts Shows Together Results Steps Periods Miraculous Long Periods Of Time Small Steps

Author:Paul Rogat Loeb

“I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.”

Needs Kind Long Lying Time Sound Animal Greater Particular Periods Cat Silent Characteristics Deceit Brutal Honorable Aversion Long Periods Of Time Indebted

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.”

Long Strong Periods Healthy Evidence Diets Vegetarian Overwhelming Long Periods Of Time Vegetarian Diet

Author:Marion Nestle

“Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.”

Ifs Long Fun Periods Over You Long Periods Of Time Getting Over You

Author:Richard Chamberlain

“You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.”

Long Play Shows Together Results Periods Training Chess Long Periods Of Time

Author:Fabiano Caruana

“There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed and brand; so nearly alike that one mind is the author of them, and that a young and underdeveloped, but piously inclined mind. The evidence I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith as their creator. It is difficult to believe that they are a product of history, that they came upon the scene separated by long periods of time, and among a race which was the ancestral race of the red man of America.”

“Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.”

Men Humans Kind Long Doe Might Funny Individual Can Do Animal Generations Periods Historical Cooperation One Time Contrast Humankind Realisation Long Periods Of Time

Author:John Rawls

“I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.”

Long Book Values Study Higher Discipline Periods Lows Flow Strategy Average Favors Buying Yield Cash Academic Consistently Strict Earning Ratios Long Periods Of Time Battered Cash Flow

Author:David Dreman

“The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.”

Ifs Long Doe Winning Inspiring Path Periods Prepared Investment Noble Professionalism Long Periods Of Time

Author:David Maister

“Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.”

Long Play Character Impossible Periods Long Periods Of Time

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.”

Long Faces Practice Subjects Periods Constant Chosen Dedicated Odds Pursued Vigilant Long Periods Of Time Against All Odds Repeated Failure

Book:Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Source: Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.”

“The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time”

Long Action Life Is Keys Periods Areas Consistent Key To Success Blogging Long Periods Of Time

Author:Darren Rowse

“I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.”

Thinking Long Can Do Periods Long Periods Of Time Most Romantic

Author:Nick Zano

“Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.”

Trying Long I Can Individual Periods Beats Picks Traps Long Periods Of Time Buffett Warren Buffet

Author:Ben Stein

“I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.”

Men Believe Long Able Faces Difficult Marriage Periods Faults Long Periods Of Time Difficult Work

Author:Connie Sellecca

“The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.”

Wells Long Pleasure Periods Companion Handy Long Periods Of Time

Author:Lloyd Alexander

“We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.”

Ifs Years Long Sometimes Periods Seeds Truck Crops Long Periods Of Time Pollen

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.”

Long Would Be Certain Stars Air Position Television Periods News Luxury Operations Programming Imperatives Cnn Long Periods Of Time

Author:Brit Hume

“I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.”

Long Home Periods Scared Long Periods Of Time

Author:Daniel Johns

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