Long Quotes

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

O how long ago the earth would have been destroyed, if Mary had not interposed!

I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.

When you've played a long rally and you lost it, it does hurt.

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

When I moved to Los Angeles, my goal was to gain respect - whether it's in big or small projects - and as long as the work is good I'm happy.

For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

China is a long caravan, longer and stronger than the Wall.

Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Even though I've been doing it for so long, I still feel fresh. Even when I walk out on stage, I still feel pretty much the same as I've always felt.

Diplomacy can be a frustrating thing. I think the strategy can work, so long as the force is robust and the rules of engagement are clear.

Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.

In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

Send her a quick note while you're stuck in a long meeting. A lighthearted chat definitely makes the time go faster.

As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do?

I think squats is a generic thing - you can do squats with anything. That's the great thing about it. As long as you get in a safe position to do it.

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick exit. It is centered on long-term value creation.

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

I'm satisfied as long as I dominate.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.