Long Quotes - Page 345

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

This time it will be a long one.

I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.

Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.

There is a well-established conviction that the central banks always do what is necessary to keep the system going and then afterwards you then take care of the legal aspects. In a crisis, you simply do not have time to think about such concerns for too long.

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape.