Long Quotes

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.

Stealing is OK as long as it's done well.

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

How long did it take for a past to die?

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

You retain your health only so long as you are willing.

I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion. It's like me. I've been around long enough and I've come back in fashion.

It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

Do we need distance to get close?

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Life is long if it is full.

My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as the saying goes, stocks are for the long run.

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

Akri done left his Simi on his arm for far too long. She done got tired and cranky. (Simi)