Long Quotes

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.

Long live eternal Germany!

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

How long a time lies in one little word?

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Life well spent is long.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its time to move on to the next stage.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.