Long Quotes

Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic.

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.

My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.

I only have one why, and my challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible.

Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.

Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.

My hair was growin' too long, so I got me a fade And when my dishes got dirty, I got cascade And When the weather was hot, I got a spot in the shade.

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long rows

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.

My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.

As long as I don't break the camera, I'll be fine.

The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

I don't know, I don't pay attention to critics anyway. They either like me or they don't, you know what I mean? I am too long in the tooth to worry about that.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent.

If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.