#prolonged

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock. ↗

— Allen Klein

#consequences #country #enormous #global #horrendous

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#even #feels #heavier #heavy #hundred

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#attention #mental #nothing #period #prolonged

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#either #holiday #looked #may #prolonged

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. ↗

— David Remnick

#almost #been #between #crisis #editor

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #authority #because #being #believe

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#cannot #childhood #hell #prolonged #remain

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#afraid #could #decide #effort #kinds

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. ↗

— David Viscott

#any #consequence #effort #enthusiasm #face

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling