Long Quotes
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.
It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.
If you're callin' 'bout my heart, it's still yours / I should've listened to it a little more / Then it wouldn't have taken me so long / To know where I belong
It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.
The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones
You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.
The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.
Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.
I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.
The Queen is dead and gone. Well, at least she's gone... for now. Long live Alice! Long live Wonderland.
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.
For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.
Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.
There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.
