Long Quotes
I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.
I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.
I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.
Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.
I am super-Italian, not even European - Italian. And this is very precise. It's like houses. Over time they stabilize themselves in the terrain. I am still at the first step of a long staircase.
I did pass the bar in Pennsylvania. I can practice Amish law. But it's long expired, my bar license.
The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.
There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart.
There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.
I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.
Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.
When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.
Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run, always lead to the best outcomes.
No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.
My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.
Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.
His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting.
Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured...it was like coming home.
I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream.
At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth." "What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?" "He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.
As long as we’re together, that’s how we’ll be. No trembling. No faltering. We’re unstoppable.
Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?
You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.
I didn't even think I would make it that long. I thought I would drug overdose, like Jimi Hendrix. I thank God every day to even be here.
I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.
I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.
I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?
The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.
Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.
Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.
Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.
As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"
Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the long-sought-after peace of our twilight years.