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for a while

«I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.»
«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.»
«My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.»
Author: Sandra Day O'Conner | About: Voting | Keywords: at work, for a while
«Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.»
«I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot beacause I knew different things from her....Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? Gatsby»
«No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.»
«Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.»
«I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.»
«I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.»
«I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.»

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