Long Quotes - Page 130

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.

Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.

I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.