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“I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).”

Should Years Firsts Long Two Important Principles Particular Periods Taxes Constant Related Steady Expansion Revenue Public Service

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.”

“When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.”

People Ifs Mind Long Would Be Faces Actors Periods Straight Face

Author:Bill Nighy

“Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.”

Long Use Used Process Sea Subjects Century Periods British Phrases Defence Isle Erratic

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.”

“No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.”

People Long Dies Language Atheism Periods Careful Positive Atheism Comparison March Customs Decay Rejected Obsolete Extending Watchers Glaciers

Book:Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne

Source: Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne

“I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.”

Long Periods Long Time Experiments Destroyed Hated Mum Really Cool Wardrobe Tramps Studs Dreadlocks

Author:Clemence Poesy

“Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.”

“Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.”

Long Would Be Perfect Periods Perfection Lifetime Determined Unnatural Long Periods Of Time

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.”

People Knows Humans Long Human Beings Family Periods Dissolving

Book:Family

Source: Family

“One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.”

Men Children Long Facts Problem Realizing Perfect Periods Active Manifest Psychics Inner Life Long Periods Of Time

Author:Maria Montessori

“Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.”

Men Years Long Book Body Behinds Silence Periods Late Productivity Distinction Unbroken Years Of Life Foreground

Book:Silences

Source: Silences

“Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.”

Way Giving Persons Long Book Roles Periods Crisis Obscure Limelight

Author:Susan Ertz

“The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.”

World Heart Long Periods Senses Bliss Instant Clumsy

Book:Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness

Source: Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness

“Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.”

Mean Long Country Enough Grows Periods Travel Understood Contempt Fierce Traveled Beard Thorough Mustache

Book:Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio

Source: Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio

“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.”

Ifs Needs Writing Kind Long Spiritual Turns Prayer Silence Study Teacher Tvs Periods Solitude Deeper Turn-on Spiritual Teachers Journaling

Author:Richard Rohr

“[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.”

Believe Long Happens Creativity Theory Periods Projects Green Boring Things Happen Staring Collaboration Continuity Long Day Disheartening

Author:Betty Comden

“Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from a complete history of his country during the long period in which he was the most prominent actor.”

Writing Long Country Character Actors Periods Compass Grandeur Prominent

Book:The life of George Washington

Source: The life of George Washington

“Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.”

Long Has Beens Made Matter Together Stuff Bits Periods Flow Clouds Be You Replaced Persist Flux

Author:Steve Grand

“I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't.”

Thinking Knows Long Use Form My Own Gone Periods Breaths Punctuation

Book:The Life of an Ordinary Woman

Source: The Life of an Ordinary Woman

“This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.”

“You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.”

Ifs Writing Wells May Long Done Moving Order Bits Process Poor Ready Periods Excellent Productive Mediocre

Author:Ray Bradbury

“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.”

World Long Has Beens Heaven Periods Unions Division Divides Antiquity

Author:Luo Guanzhong

“We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work”

Should Long Reality Class Middle Periods Pressure Intense Assumption Middle Class Bargains

Author:James Fallows

“It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.”

Long Ideas Sound Periods Exciting Continuing Gypsy Long Periods Of Time

Author:Carla Gugino

“Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.”

Long Bits Gone Periods Lonely

Author:Rufus Sewell

“All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.”

Ifs Feels Long Has Beens Jobs Turns Actors Difficult Periods Long Time Sick Gambling Stomach

Author:Bill Nighy

“We rehearsed our 'Scarface' to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.”

Long Play Wonderful Periods Casts Rehearsal Scarface

Author:Robert Loggia

“You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.”

Long Moments Film Actors Challenges Emotion Periods Tricks Long Periods Of Time Film Actors

Author:Aaron Stanford

“The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.”

Thinking May Long Understanding Growth Acting Periods Helpful Consumption Long Periods Of Time

Book:The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

Source: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

“I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know - secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time - that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.”

“Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.”

“Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?”

Men World Long Dream Lasts This World Periods Granted Always Happy

Author:Frederic Chopin

“In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.”

Way Long Together Left President Numbers Issues Plans Economic Periods Office Clinton Debt Balanced Deficit Surplus Long Periods Of Time President Clinton

Author:Chris Van Hollen

“Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.”

Years Humans Long Responsibility Teacher Childhood Periods Professors Adulthood Adolescence Human History Constraints Irresponsible Tenure Frivolity

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

“At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.”

Thinking Writing Long Said Periods Capable Long Periods Of Time

Author:Edan Lepucki

“When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.”

“As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.”

Knows Long Progress Periods Areas

Author:Eric Kandel

“In our quest for living a pure, focused life that pleases God, we all hit the wall at one time or another. What do we do then? Give up... Not an option. I have had times when the road has gotten long... Those periods can be very challenging. When they happen, I go to God and ask for His strength for the journey.”

Giving Long Happens Asks Challenges Journey Wall Periods Please Pure Giving Up Focused One Time Quests

Author:Rebecca St. James

“I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.”

Knows Want Years Long Opportunity Answers Son Periods Hollywood Raises Right Thing My Son Take Time Time Off Turned Down Long Periods Of Time

Author:Arsenio Hall

“Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.”

Long Hard Values Greater Hard Work Periods Elements Add Patient Appreciation Accomplishment Outcomes Long Periods Of Time

Book:The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden

Source: The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden

“In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free?”

Ifs Men Long Would Be Religious Party Boys Mines He Man Periods Manhood Ceremony Impressive Supplies Bragging Brag Gloria Menstruation Sanitary Tampons

Author:Jessica Valenti

“Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us to a planet without countries, without wars, without patriotism, without religions, without poverty, where we will be able to share the world. Actually, maybe I am not sure I truly believe that I believe this, but I do want to believe that I believe this.”

World Want Believe Long War Country Able Given I Believe Poverty Share Planets Periods Instinct Prosperity Not Sure Regions Collaboration Rationality

Author:Carlo Rovelli

“It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.”

Feels May Long Results Plans Crime Periods Fortune Prosperity Punishment Immortal Grants Customs Temporary Impunity

Author:Julius Caesar

“They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.”

Long Used Loses Leader Habit Periods Election Facility Best Leader Free Elections

Author:Chinua Achebe

“It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.”

“It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.”

People Long Jobs Periods Musician Phases Me Alone Long Periods Of Time Alone Time Drastic

Author:Angel Deradoorian

“Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.”

Long Willing Periods Entrepreneur Misunderstood Long Periods Of Time

Author:Jeff Bezos

“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.”

Long I Can War America Remember Term Worst Periods Madness Historical Long Term Vietnam Pigs Vietnam War Mccarthyism Bay Of Pigs

Author:John le Carre

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