Long Quotes - Page 114

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Math is discovered. To be invented requires an inventor, but math exists outside of humanity. But ultimately, the laws of the universe will be reduced down to a single equation, perhaps no more than one inch long. But leaves the final question, where did that one inch equation come from?

The Long Way HomeWhy is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?

Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know. And it's the whole reason I've done what I've done for as long as I've done it. It's that I'm able to use what I know in order to help someone else grow. And that's exactly what happened on Sisterhood of Hip Hop.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.

Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are: You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing. I can easily convince other people that you're the one who is messed up. As long as I'm calm, you can't call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel. I know exactly how to get under your skin.

You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.

You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him [Eric Clapton ]; he was in a very, very bad way for a long time, but he came through it. Most people don't come through it because they don't have the money to buy the people to look after them.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.