Long Quotes

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.

I am deeply reminded that our life’s journey is a gift, not a given, and that we can never truly know how long the journey will last. All we can do is decide how it unfolds.

Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

You have to pick your places to "step up" and you have you pick your spots. If you're just going to run out there, and, just be what/who you want to be, then you won't be that long.

In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.

As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.

As long as I'm in good shape, you'll always see me smiling.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.