Long Quotes

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

Face your potential. It's been staring at you for far too long.

Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can't trust over night.

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.

Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.

I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

Who knows how long this will last, now we've come so far so fast.

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it.

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.