Long Quotes

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

Life is short and the art long.

Long exercised in woes.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.

As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

As hideous and dumb as it sounds, I wouldn't be at all surprised by an invasion of Iraq on September II. I'll take a long shot bet on that.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.

I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be. “Why?” he said to his lover. “Because I want you for however long I have you.

If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.

If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.

Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

I can't promise you forever, because that's not long enough.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

Juicing is the key to a long, healthy, disease-free life.

Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure. George Washington couldn't tell a lie.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!

Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it.