Long Quotes

Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall'.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

Threatened folk live long.

It doesn't matter what kind of world we live in as long as we have each other.

As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.

I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.

As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China’s reform.

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.

We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.

There is nothing to be intimidated about - it's just another long run where a few more people show up and they happen to wear numbers.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.

[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.

I'm a Cancer; I'm music passionate. I like long walks on the beach.

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.