Long Quotes - Page 156

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off. Man's only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor's, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That's how I "completed" learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

A road to a friend's house is never long.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.

Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

Life is brief but love is LONG .

No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.