Long Quotes - Page 649

The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. It is better to aim for something that you want-even though you miss it-than to get something that you didn't aim to get, and which you don't want! If we look long enough for what we want in life we are almost sure to find it, no matter what that objective may be.

It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their parents and of the taxpayers). If students happen to learn anything useful while enrolled, that's good, but if not, as long as they've paid their bills, that's not the university's problem.

He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.

Long jesting was never good.

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.

A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.

They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.