Long Quotes

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

The world has no long injustices.

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved people.

I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted [knocks wood] career... I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I’d say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

Wouldn't it be great if we didn't care who got the credit as long as the job got done?

I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long.

As long as we're honest and not mean, it's all fair game no matter what you say.

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today.

You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

Do any exercise you want as long as you're willing to do it. You see gym equipment on TV advertisements all the time, but guess what? It's only good if you actually use it.

It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .

I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.

I also fear that nothing really ends at the end. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter.

She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.

I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.