Long Quotes - Page 603

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

There is no such thing as great work without longevity.

I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

We almost have to force or drive ourselves to work hard if we are to reach our potential. If we don't enjoy what we do, we won't be able to push as hard as we need to push for as long as we need to push to achieve our best. However, if we enjoy what we do and if we're enthusiastic about it, we'll do it better and come closer to becoming the best we can be.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.

The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. I expected my players to make mistakes, as long as they were mistakes of commission. A mistake of commission happens when you are doing what should be done but don't get the results you want.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

I came from a generation where women were almost deified, and like Groucho Marx's line, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member", I thought, "I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman who would sleep with me!" It took me a long time to work my way through that.

Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.

Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

This sorry poem Isn't long It's simply to say I was wrong!!

In all the years together You've shared joy, and contentment too Long may it continue In the years ahead, for the both of you

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.

One of the great things about being on a show for a long period of time is watching the show evolve. A friend told me a long time ago "It should be easy" and it usually is if you're not distracted with the usual demons any creative person has. Especially with comedy because you find yourself laughing while you work.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.

Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it