Long Time Quotes

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

I've had a face-lift. I've had my eyes done; liposuction; the nose job - well, that was a long time ago.

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.

I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

I'm just trying to enjoy my moment, and I would like to enjoy it for a long time.

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

WindClan has traveled a long time. It's nearly a moon since ShadowClan drove us from our home. The weather is turning colder, and leaf-bare will be here soon. We have no choice but to stay.

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.