#long

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#because #belong #each #forgotten #other

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#company #desires #literature #longings #beauty

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

#bloody #commit #democracy #did #either

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#folly #honest #honesty #long #men

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. ↗

— Scott Adams

#blaming #comes #decision-making #guessing #inadequate

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democratic #democratic system #different #go #i

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. ↗

— Ira Glass

#coined #enough #into #long #radio

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#expectation #future #me #object #recognised

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#does #even #exist #hospitals #long