Long Quotes - Page 284

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.