Long Quotes

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

We've always been divided by some of these big political issues. It's fine. As long as we treat each other with respect and remember that ultimately, we're all Americans, we'll be fine.

The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.

I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.

And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice.

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.

As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

I don't know how long I'm going to live, but I hope my seeds are pretty good.

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.

I like "As Long As You Love Me" and "Boyfriend" by Justin Bieber. It gets you moving - you just can't help it! And "Teach Me How to Dougie" gets Zendaya and I every time.

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations Promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.

What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.

The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

I'm out and about meeting people all day long. And I'm very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."

Life is short, so I am one of those people - and luckily my girlfriend is too - who wants to live everywhere. I don't know how long I'll be there, but I like it right now.

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.