Long Quotes - Page 55

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.

Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle; therefore, our primary task is to organize the masses and lead them in the struggle for economic freedom.

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

I learned a long time ago that the last thing any woman should be thinking about is being 'skinny' or 'thin.' To me, those words imply weakness, fragility, the inability to stand firm in a storm. If you want to change your body, aim for 'athletic.' An athletic body is healthy, strong, and built to thrive. An athletic body can take many shapes.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as long as these streams continue to hold up. If this amounts to living in a fool's paradise, don't waste your time trying to explain that to the fool.

I realize that the nation is facing problems presently that it hasn't faced in a long, long time. But you have a recourse that the unredeemed do not have. That recourse, as you well know, is the Lord. He still answers prayer!

Thank you hard taco shells for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.

Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word.

In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.