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“Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.”

Years Long Said Hard America Views Optimism Cycles Pessimism Realism

Author:Ron Fournier

“Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.”

Humans Long Said Would Be Form Son Birth Ugly Queens Fairy Good Sense Once Upon A Time Common Good Uncommon Amiable Human Form

Book:Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

Source: Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

“All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.”

Men Writing Long Said Stories Courses Found Sleep Clear Missing Changed Drug Details One Man Links Drs Cabinets Jekyll

Book:The complete short stories

Source: The complete short stories

“With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.”

Needs Long Said Ideas Whole Goes On Conceit

Author:James Laughlin

“When Ben Stiller and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'”

Way Firsts Littles Long Said Stills Kids Felt Bits Needed Prove Letting Go Married Little Bit Long Way Just Let Go

Author:Christine Taylor

“I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.”

Giving Long Said Running Remember Lines Rooms Laughing Comedy Losing Give Me Foundation Scripts Bob Long Runs Dressings Dressing Rooms

Author:Jeffrey Tambor

“Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.”

Trying Long Said Wanted Parent Enjoy Support Hardest They Said Skating Support Me Trying My Hardest

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.”

Long Said Names Spells Publicists

Author:Tina Yothers

“The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.”

Source: Nightmares & Dreamscapes

“Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos.”

Needs Long Said Might Bits Interesting Drama Tension Soundtracks Pathos

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.”

Should Long Said I Can Remember Names Parent Taught Proud Long Ago Emma

Author:Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it.”

Years Long Said Night Found Deals Talking Cold Drug Bed Long Time Murder Warm Meat Emptiness Chips Detachment Numb Numbness Sweating

Book:Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

“The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."”

Source: Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction

“If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.”

Ifs Men May Long Doe Has Beens Said Remember Faces Forget Danger Ready Circumstances Long Time Lays Profit Sentiments

Author:Confucius

“Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.”

Mind Long Made Said Pay Attention Criticism Profit Long Ago Miscellaneous Involving

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.”

Should Long Said Eye Happiness Form Night White Wonderful Hair Bed Snow His Eyes Dry Tall Every Night Long Ago Bent Slender Jolly Gait

Author:George Arnold

“What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.”

Ifs Long Said Done Able Dies Landscape Repeats Embarrassed Adequate Dinosaurs

Author:Werner Herzog

“A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.”

Men May Long Said Book Earth Science Walks Gone Long Time

Author:John Muir

“Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.”

Knows World Littles Long Doe Said Care Able Half Know How Struggle Fate Seats Long Ago Other Half One Half Half Life

Book:How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Source: How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

“Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.”

Long Made Said I Can Ideas Helping Fine Holes Satisfied Made It Relief Farms Farmers Agriculture

Book:Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers

Source: Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers

“The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'”

Long Said Real Government Grows Water Land Flow Oil Grass Rhyme They Said Say Anything Treaties Oklahoma

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929

“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.”

“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.”

Source: Collected Poems

“There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.”

Humans Long Has Beens Said Race Human Race

Author:Steve Fowler

“H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.”

Ifs Long Said Language Term Gone Tree Horror Tough Tongue Lists Drunk Rats Ruined Wraps Dictionary Supplies Slang Hammered Limerick Being Drunk American Language

Author:Bill Barich

“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

“I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.”

People Giving Long Said Enough Sin Asking Lists Ministers Gentleman Lazy Laziness Idle Enough Said

Book:John Ploughman's Talks

Source: John Ploughman's Talks

“I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.”

Long Said Book Modern Myth Comic Greek Comic Book Greek Myth

Author:David S. Goyer

“"Strangers may not lodge complaints till they have been in residence here for ninety days," the Cacique said, "and no stranger has ever remained with us that long." "My complaint won't hold for ninety days. I accuse you people of eating men."”

People Men May Long Has Beens Said Eating Stranger Complaints Ninety Lodges Residence

Author:R. A. Lafferty

“When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.”

Long Said Black Car Color Customers

Author:Peter Drucker

“"What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?" a university student asked me several years ago. "The brevity of it," I replied without hesitation. Time moves so quickly, and no matter who we are or what we have done, the time will come when our lives will be over. As Jesus said, "As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work" (John 9:4).”

Years Long Said Matter Done Moving Night Found Jesus Our Lives Students Years Ago Surprise University Who We Are Hesitation Brevity University Students

Author:Billy Graham

“We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.”

People Long Said Enough Body School Girl Cities Our Lives Lows Died Lays Missions Maps Mail Burned They Said Medal Casualties Bombers

Author:Randall Jarrell

“But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.”

Ifs Long Said Hands Political Asks White Knowing Wise Blue Green Jew Welcome Ask Me Etc Communist Cows Belly Marxism Beard Calves You Re Welcome

Author:Marc Chagall

“My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.”

Mind Kind Long Said Young Parent Brother My Brother Young Love Wedding Day Our Wedding Long Love

Author:Padraic Colum

“A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?”

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.”

Humans Long Said Government Human Beings Support Issues Land Fool Involved Slavery Blind Unions Gods Will Curse Preservation Enslavement Feuds Slaveholders

Author:William Lloyd Garrison

“There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.”

Knows Men Way Heart Long Said Hands Eye Faces Forget Forever Path Regret Mets Creatures Wander Wet Long Ago Wiser Woe Haunting Phantoms

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.”

“For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".”

Ifs Feels Long Said America Culture Ethics Feel Good Creeds

Author:George W. Bush

“I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.”

Ifs Years Long Said Play Walks Golf If I Could

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I've been wearing hearing aids for a long time. The technology available now is simply unbelievable. When I compare the new digital products to what we had 30 years ago, it's an amazing difference.... There was a time when I couldn't hear what most people said to me, most of the time. But with the hearing aids, I understand just about everything ... it really is very impressive.”

People Years Long Said Differences Technology Products Long Time Years Ago Available Hearing Aids Compare Digital Unbelievable Impressive Very Impressive Hearing Aids

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."”

Firsts Long Said Beautiful House Democracy Fashion Hair Praying Terrible Handsome Countrymen Long Hair Sparta

Author:Plutarch

“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.”

“They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.”

Wells Long Said States Feet Ignorant Governors

Author:Huey Long

“Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'”

Thinking Long Said Long Ago Music Business Dave

Author:David Lee Roth

“People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.”

People Ifs Men Wells Long Said Might Film Purpose Cutting Long Time Be Good Territory Improvising Being Funny New Territory

Author:Denzel Washington

“The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads.”

Wells Long Said Truth Lasts Saws Long Time Weed Knives Pathways Astonishment

Book:War Is Kind and Other Poems

Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems

“I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress." But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern.”

Thinking Want Littles Long Said Stars Hair Dresses Seven Patterns Actresses Makeup Twelve Halloween Costumes Movie Star Jewelry Dressed Up Jenny

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.”

Long Said Country Done Hands Reality Hours Saws Prove Clock Pushing Session Legislature Statutes Travesty Pushing On Prove Me Wrong

Author:L. Neil Smith

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