Long Quotes - Page 447

Often it is fatal to live too long.

The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.

I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.

Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

The idea that you can cross a dimension, or commune with the dead, or life on other planets... these are the great unknowns. They will be debated as long as their is life. I think there's an inherent interest from people in what that stuff is.

Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

Never is an awfully long time.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.