Long Quotes

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done

We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

Have you noticed that if you leave the laundry in the hamper long enough, it's ready to wear again?

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

TV can be a long commitment.

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up.

My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last.

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.