Long Quotes - Page 162

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?

I was the one small brunete among tall blondes. You only get one body, might as well love it. Nothing is the end of the world. Flash forward a year and ask, "Is this really going to be that big of a deal? In the long run, it's really not".

What a director is looking for is someone who will follow you and no matter what. And if you ask for blue, he's gonna try blue. And if you say, give me a piece of red with it, and they try. And you don't mind so much if it's difficult to get the blue and the red together. As long as they try. And as long as they give everything they can to give you what you want. That's what I'm looking for.

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. And that while there are always going to be roadblocks along the way, you're going to be just fine, as long as you learn from each setback.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?

If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago have been made ... We have failed not for lack of hypotheses which equate man with the rest of the universe, but for lack of a hypothesis (short of animism) which provides for the peculiar divergence of man ... Let me now state my belief that the peculiar factor in man which forbids our explaining his actions upon the ordinary plane of biology is a highly specialized and unstable biological complex, and that this factor is none other than language.

Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.

You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

You might sit at your computer, thinking you own and control your own ideas but it doesn't take long before you realize that you're part of a bigger network. You're fully wrapped up in relationships out of which you come and in which you participate. To look at yourself as a single being is absurd. The new way to look at it is, 'I'm connected, therefore I am.'

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

I always just focus on what my own goals are, and not what anybody else's goals for me are or their expectations. I just know that my family will always be supporting me and my friends and my coaches. And as long as I put in the hard work and know that I'm giving it my best effort, I will always be happy.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.

I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.