Long Quotes - Page 635

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida.

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

The more you look into pigs the more you realize quite how everywhere they are. People come in contact with parts of pigs probably between 20 and 50 times a day. And that's before you even eat your dinner. And yet we just have a long string of negative words about them.

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.