Longueurs Quotes & Sayings

12:16 Esteem everyone with the same respect; no one is more important than the other. Associate yourself rather with the lowly than with the lofty. Do not distance yourself from others in your own mind. ("Take a real interest in ordinary people." - JB Phillips) — Francois Du Toit

love of others." With — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Showing up to school without knowing what classes i'm taking or where the classroom are located. the worst one was showing up for exams i hadn't studied for — Ellen Schreiber

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name. — Samuel Alexander

Then I'd been determined to be the best blind foster the world had ever known, following every rule, obeying every protocol, the very model of royal fae youth. Maybe that way, they would send for me. I could go home. — Seanan McGuire

Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions. — Rolf Potts

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa. — Bono

The thing I notice first about such people is their wonderful Christian charity. What kind of an electorate could, term after term, vote in a man of such ill-informed bigotry as Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina? A man who has sneered: 'The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.'122 The answer, I suppose, is the kind of electorate that sees morality in narrowly religious terms and feels threatened by anybody who doesn't share the same absolutist faith. I — Richard Dawkins

THE OLD ARE LIKE BOOKS

The old are like books, crack-spined,
Their foxed pages dogeared at favorite paragraphs
While whole chapters have been forgotten.
Each cover scuffed, dust-jackets lost,
Titles alluding to something long out of style,
Prose suffering from an overuse of footnotes,
Occasional longueurs, over-repetitions of the main theme,
But overall, unique and idiosyncratic tales.
Of another era, but preface to this. — David Andrew Westwood

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles. — Robert Walser

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings. — Deborah Harkness

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation. — Nora Ephron

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem. — James Mark Baldwin

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams or desires — Kahlil Gibran

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing. — Newt Gingrich