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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire
Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn't matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!
If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.
Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.
A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.
I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.
There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half
I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not be.
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life.
I think [Anderson Cooper ] and me both enjoy working, and don't consider it "work," so as long as I'm having fun I will continue at this pace.
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?
We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.
I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.
My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.
When you do things for the right reasons, eventually no matter how long it takes, people will take notice of it and can't help but respect it.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.
You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.
This, my children," Alistair said proudly, "was barbecue pork." Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. "Been out in the sun for a long time.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.
Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.
I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.
I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.
I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.
George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.
There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.
The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.
It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.
As long as people allow themselves to be shocked, outraged or disgusted, there will be those who see that this happens, just so they can watch.