Long Quotes - Page 400

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

Long exercised in woes.

Life is short and the art long.

I know Donald's [Trump] very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough, long game here. And one of the things he's done is to let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the Democratic National Committee. And we recently have learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information.

I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.

It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

I'm satisfied as long as I dominate.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

Your nightmare existence in a trunk is over... At long last you will be recognized as the inventor of photography. This picture will prove it to all the world. (On his discovery of the first photograph, made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.)

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

It definitely can be really hard being away from friends and family for so long. People expect you to be different when you come back. But I love it, I love coming home. I really want to start coming back here more often ? its so fun.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.