Long Quotes

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

And who will fight Ashur? Choose carefully, for I long for blood.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it... but they come back up and say 'hit me again.'

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

Whether it's good talk or bad talk about me, as long as your talking and making me the center of your world, I win.

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.

I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

Voice acting is about the easiest thing to do. You roll out of bed, throw your clothes on that you had on the night before, you go into the studio, and nobody cares, just as long as you can speak.

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

Laziness means more work in the long run.

Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked at getting them to communicate.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.

I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.

I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.