Long Quotes - Page 54

Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.

Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long as you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us. They can try like hell to put it out, but as long as we know in our minds who we are meant to be, they will never stand a chance.

While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced. In the case of sexual feeling, this tension is found in and about the abdomen and pelvis

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

When I hit the bong I'm Godzilla takin' over Hong Kong Eatin' wonton with a shotgun in long johns.

Lord Jesus, I'm going to obey you, and love you, and serve you, and do what you want me to do, as long as I live even if I go to Hell at the end of the road, simply because YOU ARE WORTHY TO BE LOVED, AND OBEYED, AND SERVED, and I 'm not trying to make a deal with you!

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.