Long Quotes - Page 42

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

You know the rule of 72, divide the number into 72, any number you want, and that's how long it will take your money to double.

If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical art, a single pleasing story or proverb (the acquisition of which would require no effort), what a vast stock of learning he might lay by. Seneca is therefore right when he says: "Life is long, if we know how to use it." It is consequently of importance that we understand the art of making the very best use of our lives.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

A week is a long time in politics.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.

We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.