Long Quotes - Page 101

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless.

I've always wanted an office job so I can tell someone, "I'm going to take a long lunch," or "I'm out of the office." I don't know why, but I've always seen so much stability in clocking in.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.

We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.

Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

When people come to Yoga, they are perhaps coming to it at the end of a long series of alternatives, and they're looking for something that's going to act very quickly. But Yoga is not a quick answer.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.