Long Quotes

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on.

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

I dont know how long Ill be trick or treating. Maybe Ill be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

As long as you know what you are doing and how to anticipate and throw, I don't think you need all that much physically.

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

His (Frank Sinatra) attention span was not long, shall we say.

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

I'm under a super microscope. I've got my friends to keep me cool. As long as you've got friends, you've got nothing to worry about.

The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with] both parties, it's beyond belief.

As long as I stay honest with myself and just do the work that I am willing to do, and have been willing to do and am doing.

I snack on fruit and nuts. In the middle of my long workouts, I'll have a protein shake.

As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

So long as I get some sleep and get to take care of myself and eat healthy and that sort of thing, I'm OK. I'm not out there digging ditches and it's not brain surgery.

At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.

As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

I was trying to fit in for so long, until about Junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

I feel like a big trend is just to model your success off someone else and I don't think that ever works in the long run.

As long as you're fierce and you have that inner confidence with yourself, you can get through anything.

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.