Long Quotes - Page 232

Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like.

At the time, Jean-Claude [Juncker] was already an important man in Brussels. I was a young representative in the European Parliament. We talked for a long time and from that point on, our connection became increasingly deep. But our working-class origins are at least as important to our bond.

Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.

Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see conversions.

Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

People love to judge, as long as they have somebody else to judge they don't give in and answer with hate would drag me down, it would simply put me into the same position they are, I don't believe that their position is an enviable one!

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us.

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.