Long Quotes - Page 64

It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

Life is so great. Life is so fun. Life is so great in my head because I see the love. I see what life could be. As long as I can fulfill it and fulfill my days, it will be fruitful and come about.

I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a f***ing good-looking f*** you are.' And then I brighten up.

No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.

Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.

I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.

We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.