Long Quotes - Page 322

As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.

I hate them!' she cried. 'It's not fair!' 'No, it isn't,' Frederick said gently. 'I can't do it all!' 'No. You can't.' After a long moment he said, 'But you can do what you can.' 'And what if that isn't enough?' Frederick held her shoulders and took a step back. He looked in her eyes. 'Enough for what?' 'For my family.' 'What more could they ask for than what you've given?

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives.

I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.

Donald Trump is betraying everything that made America great: tolerance, democratic institutions and respect for the individual. In that sense, Trump is the most un-American U.S. president that the country has had in a long time.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward-shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess in there.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.