Long Quotes - Page 24

I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.

As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train'

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.