Long Quotes
Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.
Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as we are being honest with ourselves - even if we are the only ones.
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.
Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
Long-lasting victory can never be separated from a long-lasting stand on the foundation of the cross.
Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.
Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.