Long Quotes - Page 45

Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom.

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.

As long as you and I are still breathing, we have a purpose to serve

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time.

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.