"Any longer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thinking makes it so. If the cosmos is just "and of our pleasant vices makes instruments to scourge us," it would seem that the only way to escape from our heritage of evil is to destroy that fountain of desire whence our vices flow; to refuse any longer to be the instruments of the evolutionary process, and withdraw from the struggle for existence. If the karma is modifiable by self-discipline, if its coarser desires, one after another, can be extinguished, the ultimate [64] fundamental desire of self-assertion, or the desire to be, may ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... one morning, wetter than ever, some noble spirit, the Tell of our liberties, exclaims, 'Who would be free, himself must strike the blow.' His actual words (if one was not writing history) are, 'Hang me if I stand this any longer,' and they strike the keynote of everybody's thought. He goes away by the next train, and his departure is followed by the same effects as the tapping of a reservoir. The hotel company—I mean the inmates; the company goes into bankruptcy—stream off at once to their own homes. That journey through ...
— Some Private Views • James Payn
... to be done this evening. I can't keep it any longer. You did not accept of it from Diodora, so you must take it from me. It is no longer my ...
— Dr. Dumany's Wife • Mr Jkai
... I think we were foolish to leave the Peacock without taking the captain or Cadmus along. I won't trust any of them any longer." ...
— The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes • Arthur M. Winfield
... comfortable in my old age, and leave a competence for my widow. Aureataland has had a run alone; if there had been any grit in the people they would have made a nation of themselves. There isn't any, and I'm not going to slave myself for them any longer. No doubt they'll be very well treated, and to tell the truth, I don't much care if they aren't. After all, ...
— A Man of Mark • Anthony Hope
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