Long Quotes - Page 296

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

As merry as the day is long.

Love that well which thou must leave ere long.

This is the short and the long of it.

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred?

It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.

The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.