Long Quotes - Page 157

Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.

My love is as a fever, longing still.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

We had a great lunch. Senator Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin' now, the Republicans pay for it. Everybody asks me, "Will, how long is this going to go on, spending all this money and everything going like this?" I says, "Well, it will go on just as long as the Republicans has got any money. That's all I know about it."

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known.

It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable.