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Best Quotes About Long (Top 100)
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Irwin Shaw -
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Norton Juster -
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
Sylvia Plath -
Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second.
Lewis Carroll -
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan -
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert -
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
Roald Dahl -
I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
Libba Bray -
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
Sigmund Freud -
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
Frank Zappa -
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
Alan Moore -
Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains
Dee Brown -
You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
Hilary Mantel -
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....
Nicole Richie -
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris -
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?
Tennessee Williams -
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
Martin Luther -
You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
Norton Juster -
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
Lynn Abbey -
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
Elizabeth Wurtzel -
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Geoffrey Chaucer -
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Truman Capote -
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin -
Guess you lose some & win some, long as the outcome is income.
Drake -
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift -
It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.
Gerard Way -
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France -
We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.
William Carlos Williams -
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy Carter -
The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
Adolf Hitler -
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.
Raymond Carver -
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes -
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
Gregory Maguire -
Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.
Jimmy Buffett -
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.
Galileo Galilei -
I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.
Jennifer Weiner -
I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.
Daniel Handler -
If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago...
Cheri Huber -
And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.
David Nicholls -
no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death
D. H. Lawrence -
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.
Ram Dass -
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.
Vikram Seth -
If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.
Mary Karr -
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual—and hence social—confidence while undermining that of women.
Naomi Wolf -
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
Guy de Maupassant -
They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.
Gerald Massey -
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes -
You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...
Jean Rhys -
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours—long hallways and unforeseen stairwells—eventually puts you in the place you are now.
Ann Patchett -
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
Carson McCullers -
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca -
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
Jules Verne -
You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.
Tove Jansson -
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney -
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
Ann Druyan -
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
Eleanor Roosevelt -
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Harriet Tubman -
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom -
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
Don DeLillo -
You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
Diana Gabaldon -
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
Alice Paul -
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
Sinclair Lewis -
Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.
Jerry Garcia -
What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
Louise Erdrich -
Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.
Bo Schembechler -
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.
Mervyn Peake -
Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.
Tim O'Brien -
If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.
Pete Doherty -
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
Alan Turing -
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich -
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
Vin Scully -
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
Josephine Baker -
I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.
Dean Karnazes -
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas -
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
Chuck Yeager -
Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.
Brian Andreas -
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome -
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
Sappho -
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
Alan Keyes -
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris -
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine -
I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.
Renata Adler -
Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch -
Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
Ian Fleming -
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
John Locke -
Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.
Stephenie Meyer -
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
Gordon Ramsay -
I'm through accepting limits''cause someone says they're soSome things I cannot changeBut till I try, I'll never know!Too long I've been afraid ofLosing love I guess I've lostWell, if that's loveIt comes at much too high a cost!
Stephen Schwartz -
As long as you like me the best. And you think I'm good-lookingsort of. I'm prepared to be annoyingly persistent.
Stephenie Meyer -
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
Tennessee Williams -
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
Warren Ellis -
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Idries Shah -
I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
John D. Rockefeller -
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
Bodhidharma -
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
Carl Lewis -
it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.
Eudora Welty -
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
Ludwig von Mises
Even More Long Quotes
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
Frances Perkins -
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
Arthur Rimbaud -
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather -
One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
George Washington Carver -
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins -
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.
Alfie Kohn -
Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.
Chris Gardner -
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
Jackson Pollock -
If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen
Jim Davis -
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves -
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.
Jared Diamond -
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
Billie Holiday -
Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
Lucretia Mott -
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
Althea Gibson -
When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.
Harry Belafonte -
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.
Gordon Parks -
You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them. I did worship them but now I am alone on a rock hewn out of my own body.
Jeanette Winterson -
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
John Wayne -
On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.
Robert K. Greenleaf -
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.
Andrew Davidson -
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
Keith Haring -
God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.
Howard W. Hunter -
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.
Jim Rohn -
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.
Donal Henahan -
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
William Safire -
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Carter G. Woodson -
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland -
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.
Thomas Keller -
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
Ogden Nash -
The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion
Michael Ondaatje -
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
J. William Fulbright -
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
Mary Daly -
Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.
Nicole Krauss -
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
Lawren Harris -
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.
Hyman Rickover -
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson -
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Jean Dubuffet -
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.
Kim Stanley Robinson -
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward -
I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
George M. Cohan -
I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.
Boss Tweed -
Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.
Clint Eastwood -
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
Carol Shields -
Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.
Jacqueline Woodson -
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
Thomas Piketty -
Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
Charles Simeon -
I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.
John M. Ford -
This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in thought, and thought is a great magnet. I have often spoken to thee of reason, now i speak to thee of faith
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais -
There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.
Louis Armstrong -
We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.
Miranda July -
I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.
Sonya Hartnett -
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
James Agate -
I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.
Lou Gehrig -
Life should be great rather than long.
B. R. Ambedkar -
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson -
I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.
Jim Thompson -
Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?
Elizabeth Bishop -
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
Hans Selye -
Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.
Scott Adams -
I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth
Katharine Hepburn -
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
Tom Stoppard -
I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
John Fowles -
Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
Jack Paar -
Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
James Montgomery -
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
Chaim Potok -
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically."
Joseph Roth -
I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
Eddie Albert -
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
Bryce Courtenay -
Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
Barry Manilow -
life is not so long that one can grow tired of it
Amin Maalouf -
One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwiseâand unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.
Dan Savage -
Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.
Bruce Lee -
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.
Tim Wise -
A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.
Linda Howard -
Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.
Anne Michaels -
Superior people never make long visits.
Marianne Moore -
For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'
Bruce Campbell -
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
Chauncey Wright -
In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
Loretta Lynn -
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
Pablo Casals -
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
William Penn -
As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long,
Sania Mirza -
It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
Georges Simenon -
It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey
Sean Covey -
As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.
Joan Baez -
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.
Dido Armstrong -
Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.
Gay Hendricks -
Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.
Edith Wharton -
It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.
Raymond Chandler -
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
Dziga Vertov -
Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.
Ann Beattie -
No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.
Bethenny Frankel -
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?
Frederick Salomon Perls -
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Alexander Alekhine -
Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.
John Bingham -
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
Avery Brundage -
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.
Nathaniel Branden -
I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
Theodore Roethke -
You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.
Alexandra Ripley -
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
Horace Greeley -
I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.
Leontyne Price -
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
Leonard Bernstein -
Happiness is a long walk with a putter.
Greg Norman -
I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
Charlie Daniels -
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien -
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Eugene Wigner -
When you like something, you should do it all night long.
Chavela Vargas -
I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.
Laurie R. King -
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.
Anne O'Hare McCormick -
I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.
Sandra Steingraber -
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
Julia Morgan -
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
Elizabeth Kenny -
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
Jules Verne -
I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.
Brenda Ueland -
Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.
Craig Johnson -
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.
Robert Ludlum -
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
Giuseppe Mazzini -
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
Idries Shah -
I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.
Kenneth H. Cooper -
When your mind is preoccupied, your impulsesânot your long-term goalsâwill guide your choices.
Kelly McGonigal -
Be who you like as long as you mean it.
Alan Cumming -
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
Rowan Williams -
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
Art Buchwald -
they say life goes on long after the thrill of living
John Mellencamp -
Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.
Samuel Rogers -
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Charles Lamb -
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.
Peggy Noonan -
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Francis Quarles -
I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
James Hetfield -
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
Carl Van Vechten -
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Walter Winchell -
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats -
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.
Mary Kay Andrews -
Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.
Anita Shreve -
Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.
Sonia Gandhi -
If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.
Josephine Tey -
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard -to-pin-down striated pillow formation.
Neal Stephenson -
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth " Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.
Joseph McCabe -
For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.
Vilfredo Pareto -
The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . . . Nature knows no ethics. There is no right and wrong in nature; the controlling realities are power and fertility.
Lesslie Newbigin -
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
Glenway Wescott -
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
Al Gore -
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan -
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
Henry Bessemer -
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
Alfred Stieglitz -
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
Pervez Musharraf -
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
James Bovard -
There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.
James Robertson -
Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.
David James Duncan -
They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
Andy Garcia -
Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.
Nicole Richie -
My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
Casey Affleck -
Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
Charles Kingsley -
As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
William Jennings Bryan -
His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
Maurice Ashley -
It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
Bernadette Devlin -
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.
John Jay Chapman -
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Antonin Artaud -
The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.
Jessye Norman -
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey -
What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.
Nicolas Sarkozy -
A little man often cast a long shadow.
G. M. Trevelyan -
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
Antonio Machado -
I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.
Louise Bogan -
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
Barry Watson -
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
Augusten Burroughs -
Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
Adolfo Bioy Casares -
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
Arthur Cayley -
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Gloria Swanson -
It didn't and doesn't turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It's only a matter of how long you can live with it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel -
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.
Robert Bloch -
… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.
Chaim Potok -
So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.
Emil Brunner -
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
Rupert Brooke -
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.
Ben Vereen -
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
Bruce Catton -
Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country,
Jiang Zemin -
There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
Greg LeMond -
If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.
David Hasselhoff -
Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
George Gissing -
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
Buddy Ebsen -
As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.
Ben Bova -
I don't know how to choose work that illuminates what my life is about. I don't know what my life is about and don't examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them. As long as the theme is something I care about at the moment, it's enough for me to start work. Maybe work itself is what my life is about.
Sidney Lumet -
Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
Louis Pasteur -
Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.
Thomas Tusser -
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
Axel Munthe -
Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.
Kimi Raikkonen -
I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.
Johnny Damon -
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
Jef Raskin -
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Edward Dahlberg -
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, It's not warm when she's away, Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, And she's always gone too long, Anytime she goes away.
Bill Withers -
It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.
Bjorn Borg -
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Arthur Bloch -
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
Eric Morecambe -
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.
Dean Acheson -
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes -
As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.-Captain Tagon
Howard Tayler -
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot -
I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. Thats what I try to do.
Randy Johnson -
And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to beâeverything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.
David Grossman -
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.
Samuel Eliot Morison -
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
Shelley Winters -
Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.
Devon Monk -
Intimidation doesn't last very long.
Lenny Wilkens -
Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
Red Adair -
I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.
Luis Miguel -
Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
W. C. Fields -
Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
Craig Newmark -
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
Sheldon Adelson -
As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
Barbara Cartland -
For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.
Andrew Gould -
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
Bill Pascrell -
Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.
Edward P. Jones -
As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.
Ilie Nastase -
Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.
Edwin Land -
I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.
Elizabeth Wurtzel -
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Henry Drummond -
When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.
Alan Loy McGinnis -
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do—out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation—look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.
Werner Herzog -
I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
Bede Griffiths -
For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
Bill Bradley -
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
Ernie Pyle -
Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.
Amy Grant -
There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.
Israel Zangwill -
The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
Liv Ullmann -
...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)
Katherine Paterson -
Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.
Paul Rusesabagina -
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
James Callaghan -
The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.
Ahmed Chalabi -
As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
Marc Almond -
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
James Whistler -
I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.
George M. Cohan -
Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.
Karl Albrecht -
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
Bryant H. McGill -
Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.
Ehud Barak -
As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
Lars Ulrich -
Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.
Hartley Coleridge -
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
Lawrence Clark Powell -
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
Alvin Ailey -
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
Joe Haldeman -
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland -
Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.
Lynn Caine -
And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why— which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.
Jon Krakauer -
The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
R. Scott Bakker -
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.
Gerard De Nerval -
They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
Bud Abbott -
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
Og Mandino -
What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.
Chuck Tanner -
The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.
Elizabeth Smart -
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
Quentin Crisp -
We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?
Ivy Baker Priest -
I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.
Ed Viesturs -
How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. ... whatever it was and however good it was, it wasn't what you once had been, and had lost, and could never have again, and once in a while, once in a long time, you remembered, and knew how far you were away, and it hit you hard enough, that little while it lasted, to break your heart.
James Agee -
I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.
Bruce Lansky -
Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
Anna Neagle -
Love lasteth long as the money endureth.
William Caxton -
It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.
Caleb Carr -
What is life, but one long risk?
Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
Kerry Thornley -
And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
Lawrence Block -
Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.
Jim Carroll -
You can't cheat the public for long.
Tennessee Ernie Ford -
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
James Agate -
I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.
Brooks Robinson -
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
James Joseph Sylvester -
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
Hermann Weyl -
Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,-\-\feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!
Helen Hunt Jackson -
If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?
Jerry Stahl -
Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
Damon Runyon -
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
Roger Angell -
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
Claude Bernard -
I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap
Colin Firth -
I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.
Billy Idol -
..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way
Robert Wright -
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.
Edward Dahlberg -
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
Kenneth Clark -
I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.
Colin Baker -
Long before I was a star, I was a fan.
Bill Anderson -
They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.
Raegan Butcher -
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
Sir John Davies -
As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.
Bob Dole -
I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.
Alan Ladd -
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel Alexander -
I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
Trent Reznor -
In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.
Paul Goodman -
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
Barney Frank -
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
Dorothea Brande -
Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
Arthur Adamov -
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.
Marie Bashkirtseff -
I have been waiting a long time for this. It's been my dream forever. Now that it's a reality, I love it. I haven't been burnt out at all and I have a bunch of guys with me that feel the same way.
Dierks Bentley -
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
Ben Nicholson -
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
George Ade -
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Geoffrey Fisher -
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Bernard Berenson -
My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.
Brian Williams -
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.
Rose Macaulay -
One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
Graham Nash -
When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
Yvonne Craig -
A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
Mary Antin -
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit
David Ryan -
Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.
Ric Ocasek -
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.
Graham Swift -
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
Bill Wyman -
We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.
Brian Corby -
As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.
Al Oerter -
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
James Q. Wilson -
When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily—in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides.
Deborah Tannen -
Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree -
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
Frederick Jackson Turner -
By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if we value freedom, there's only one conclusion. It's time to get rid of this leftover relic we call Government.
Max Barry -
So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.
Eduard Hanslick -
I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
Arthur Godfrey -
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
Beverly Sills -
The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.
Michelle Shocked -
Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.
Elliott Smith -
Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.
David Caruso -
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.
Doris Grumbach -
You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.
Boris Vallejo -
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington -
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
Donal Henahan