Ma Long Quotes

It ain't enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use 'em.

The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free.

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.

I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.

Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.

In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw--Marblehead.

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'

God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.

Please allow me to beckon ye, paramours!

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

Right now, your destiny is to shut up!

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.