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Prolonged endurance tames the bold. -- Lord Byron
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget. -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience. -- Ilka Chase
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance. -- Jan C. Ting
Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment. -- Henry Hazlitt
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. -- Richard Hofstadter
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life. -- Maureen Corrigan
Prolonged stress causes the human body to make adaptations so it can continue to serve you at a functional level. The more stress, the more adaptations. -- Janet Gallagher Nestor
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life. -- Maureen Corrigan
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. -- George Orwell
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. -- Sun Tzu
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. -- Aldous Huxley
True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. -- Daniel Kahneman
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. -- C. S. Lewis
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. -- Constantin Stanislavski
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. -- Jim Morrison
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. -- Simone de Beauvoir
If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom. -- Romola Garai
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. -- Winston Churchill
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty. -- Gordon W. Allport
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. -- Albert Ellis
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives. -- Paul Engle
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. -- Siegfried Sassoon
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. -- Milan Kundera
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock. -- Allen Klein
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war. -- J. G. Ballard
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. -- Arlen Specter
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won. -- Helen Thomas
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. -- David Viscott
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers. -- Abraham Verghese
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame. -- Steve Carell
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide. -- Douglas V. Steere
My career could have been prolonged for longer --
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood. -- Jimmy Cannon
People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. -- Diane Frolov
No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war. -- Sun Tzu
What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. -- Sun Tzu
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. -- Sun Tzu
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. -- Louise Bogan
To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point. -- Ronald Colman
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. -- William Shakespeare
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. -- Ivan Illich
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. -- Seneca the Younger
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. -- Winston Churchill
When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning. -- Yukio Mishima
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory. -- Douglas MacArthur
A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries. -- Robert Gilpin
Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged. -- Horace Walpole
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout. -- Maxim Gorky
Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace. -- Benedict of Nursia
Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth. -- Robert Orben
I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials. -- Tom Sharpe
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. -- Neal A. Maxwell
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. -- William Lyon Phelps
We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment. -- Stephen J. Pasierb
The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession. -- Jimenez Lai
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry. -- Henry James
The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence. -- Pope John Paul II
Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power. -- Phyllis Rose
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. -- Seneca the Younger
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. -- Ugo Betti
We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. -- Jonathan Tropper
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. -- Stefan Zweig
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. -- Dorothy Parker
I don't have any phobias per se, but both tight and vast spaces tend to make me nervous after a prolonged time. -- Allison Tolman
I don't like prolonged, highly expensive commissions, especially if they are chaired by judges. We seem to have overwhelming faith in judges. -- David Blunkett
Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death. -- Casey Affleck
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely. -- Mary McCarthy
Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing. -- Philip Pearlstein
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. -- Dorothy Parker
I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything. -- Katy Butler
Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome. -- Rosemary Altea
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos. -- Frank Herbert
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. -- Albert Camus
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . . -- John Kenneth Galbraith
In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction. -- Charlie Pierce
Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave. -- James Russell Lowell
Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from Feminism, the Body, and the Machine) -- Wendell Berry
A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left. -- J. Arthur Thomson
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise. -- George Bernard Shaw
I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity. -- Luke Temple
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day. -- Charlotte Bronte
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time. -- Gail Collins
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. -- Winston Churchill
The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition. -- Ben Shahn
Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly and secretively. The outcome, though, is the same. -- Tim Field
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty. -- Gordon W. Allport
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I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future. -- Albert Einstein
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way. -- Krishna Das
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? -- Alan Greenspan
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace. -- Leon Bourgeois
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort. -- Terence McKenna
A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure? -- Marguerite Duras
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Creation is always happening. Every time and individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts. -- Michael Beckwith
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent. -- Walter J. Phillips
Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. -- William Faulkner
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression. -- Tom Glazer
Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion. -- Danail Hristov
They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet. -- Bill Hicks
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain. -- Cyril Connolly
children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative. -- Habib Ali al-Jifri
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. -- Catherine Helen Spence
Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing. -- Neal A. Maxwell
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. -- David Remnick

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