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Quotes About Longer

If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.
~ Robert M. Gates
Imprisoning convicted criminals for longer and longer periods sounds like an appealing and commonsense proposal to many people. After all, when lawbreakers are locked up they can't commit more crimes and law-abiding citizens are safer. Right? Actually, wrong.
~ Charlie Kirk
Jiu-jitsu fighters usually have an advantage in longer fights even though MMA has breaks between rounds.
~ Demian Maia
The financial crisis of 2008 created a seismic shift in the dynamics of trust in financial services. FinTech would have happened without the global financial crisis - but it would have taken much longer.
~ Taavet Hinrikus
Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.
~ Lucy Powell
The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.
~ Chesley Sullenberger
People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.
~ Robert Watson
Pick your enemies more carefully than your friends," Nothing was muttering at the flames. "They will be with you longer.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Dreams can become realities, but the definition of a dream is that it is so big it will take longer than one season to accomplish. If you reasonably can achieve it this season, no matter how big it may seem, it's no longer a dream—it's a goal.
~ Joe Friel
As a culture, in the Western world, we work longer with each decade that passes. Ed Deci, a professor of psychology who I interviewed at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, has shown that an extra month per year has been tacked on to what, in 1969, was considered a full-time job.
~ Johann Hari
I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
~ Zoe McLellan
One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
There are certain aspects that cross over from ODIs to Tests. Tactically, they are quite different and you are a lot longer in the game. It is more like a war of attrition and you think tactically as bowlers.
~ Mitchell Starc
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
~ Richard von Weizsaecker
convinced her to stay longer so the beast would
~ Sarah Mlynowski
it is a Tale. Only it's longer and stranger than we imagine. Longer and stranger than we can imagine. So what you must do—" she opened her eyes "—what you must do, and what I must do, is forget.
~ John Crowley
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
~ William Penn
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.
~ Arundhati Roy
The longer the service tenure of an employee in a single private organization, the bigger the duffer that person is most likely to be.
~ Anuj Somany
Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.
~ Seth Godin
The cholera makes me very frightened for my dearest people in London, and silence, the last longer than usual, ploughs up my days and nights into long furrows. The disease rages in the neighbourhood of my husband's family, and though Wimpole Street has been hitherto clear, who can calculate on what may be?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here.
~ Elizabeth Knox
Because in February the days were really getting longer and you could see it, if you really looked. You could see how at the end of each day the world seemed cracked open and the extra light made its way across the stark trees, and promised. It promised, that light, and what a thing that was.
~ Elizabeth Strout