Long Quotes

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

I love music so much, and as long as I got all this enthusiasm and ambition, and passion for this music; as long as I'm having' fun - I'm gonna keep doin' it.

I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what it did with my mental space. These were meditations that I did.

Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart.

Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do not force that sexual identity on others.

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.

Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.

Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

People are trading distance for dollars.

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

Study is a life long pursuit.

I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulation becomes adrenaline junkiehood.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

We don't care how big or strong opponents are as long as they are human.

What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.