Long Quotes - Page 251

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of all ages, makes it the height of folly to intrust any set of men with power which is not under every possible control; perpetual strides are made after more as long as there is any part withheld.

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

As long as the National Socialist Movement is leading Germany-and that will be the case for the next few centuries, no matter how often our emigrants conjure up the opposite view- this opinion will not change.

It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.