Long Quotes

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

You can have everything you want as long as you don't want it badly enough.

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.