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Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.
In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.
We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.
Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.
Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.
As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.
Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.
Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.
American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.
I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.
A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves.
How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.
... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen
If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.
It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
In America, we love to give people second chances too - as long as you admit you were wrong and come back and do it the right way.
...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.
In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.
The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.
I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.
I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.
When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.