Long Quotes

Consultancy can be too short; or too long.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after.

Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.

A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.

The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.

I’ll be emotionally disturbed for as long as it takes

It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.

Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.

The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

I don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.