Long Quotes

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Talent is nothing but long impatience.

She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

The dream is short, repentance long.

As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I've loved George Michael for as long as I can remember. He was an absolute inspiration. Always ahead of his time.

Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.