Long Quotes
I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.
In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.
This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.
After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.
I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.
Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.
For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed
You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.
Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.
So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.
I'm being followed by a moon shadow Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow... Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light ...and are you going to stay the night?
So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
