#long

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#becomes #ironically #longer #look #more

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#along #been #brings #confidence #darling

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#every #forcing #him #life #long

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#become #enough #even #far #hold

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#am #brain #everything #first #horrors

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#anywhere #black #clad #clean #colour

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#around #becomes #being #between #calls

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#carbon #course #every #golf #golf course

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff? ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#climate #doing #free #get #kind

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #conflict #countries #dell #each