Long Quotes - Page 20

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If you're not too tall and have short limbs, it may be the best exercise for you, but if you're tall with long legs, it might be both ineffective and dangerous.I was stubbornly faithful to squats for years until I finally realized they were not well-suited for my body structure. After I switched tomore muscle-intensive movements, my gains in leg size were astounding.

True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know, but because of Who they know, and how well they know Him, and how much they long for others to know Him.

Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.