Long Quotes

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

Good shoulders and a long waist are the most necessary when it comes to wearing clothes.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

America is one long expectoration.

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.

We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.

All natural processes are long processes and they last.

I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

As long as the fans were happy, I knew I'd had a good night, and it didn't really matter what anuone else thought.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.