Long Quotes - Page 62

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

Anything is possible as long as you're focused, determined and you really want to do it.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.

I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.