Long Quotes
You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.
For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.
Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.
I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.
You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.
Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.
Since I found you no more cold nights and no more lonely days. Nothing makes me happier than knowing that I will have and hold you for as long as I live.
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?
We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.
It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.
Bankrupsy stays on your record for 7-10yrs. That gives you an idea how long it takes to rebuild trust.
I feel that when you want to seduce a man, you really need your legs. Since all my outfits were long dresses, I have to say that I really didn't feel sexy at all.
The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems.
I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.
I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.
Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.
To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.
I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.
We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.
I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive.
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.
