#long

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#changing #continually #even #greatest #half

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#girl #got #i #just #long

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#i #i can #long #manuscript #place

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#been #day #drink #drinking #drive

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. ↗

— William Hague

#democratic #development #earn #ease #find

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#done #enlightened #executed #followed #had

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. ↗

— Robert Half

#long #retirement #some #start #stop

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#answer #any #because #business #calls

I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#along #become #believe #denying #gene

We thought it would be nice to have atoms interact in such a gentle way with the photons that they would just take an imprint of the photons, so that many atoms could 'see' the same photon and it would give rise to a lot of interesting effects. Myself and my colleagues had this project for a very long time and we were finally able to observe it. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#atoms #be nice #colleagues #could #effects