Long Quotes

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell.

At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.

The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

As a single mom, I'm juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

I long for the days of good honest crooks.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.

It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.

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If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.