A Quote by George Herbert
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.
All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.
But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.
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.
Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real world. Most of what we experience "out there," such as sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, etc., lasts for only a short period of time, so it is not the real world.
Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.
This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.
If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?
An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.
What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
Politics lasts only so long - though today it's getting harder to tell where the campaigning stops and the governing begins.
It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.
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