Long Quotes - Page 180

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

Little changes over time are the secret to long term weight loss success!

I'm not the greatest long-distance shooter, I know that. But I know if I can get around that free-throw line area, a lot of times you've just got to hope I miss.

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

As Korn go on, it's the same things - bad childhoods and mean moms. It gets too old after a while. How old is Jonathan? Thirty? How long has it been since he lived with his parents?

I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.

I've been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I'd be just a footnote.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

A lot of opportunities in life tend to last a short while, due to some temporary inefficiency... For each of us, really good investment opportunities aren't going to come along too often and won't last too long, so you've got to be ready to act and have a prepared mind.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long history of intimidation of witnesses and fear on the part of blacks to testify, in racial situations in particular. For someone like Mose Wright and others to testify against white defendants in a situation like this was historic.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one

When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because they are invested in what they believe to be true. As long as they live out of an unquestioned mind, they must continue to argue with what they believe is happening rather than the reality of what is really happening.

Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.