Long Ago Quotes

• Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

  

  Dagobert D. Runes
  • People
  • Long
  • Hatred

• I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • War
  • Government

• I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Life
  • Conclusion
  • Long Ago

• Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Peace

• Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • God
  • Long
  • Why

• Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hobbit
  • Long Ago
  • Pocket-handkerchief

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Men
  • Brave
  • Long Ago

• Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Together
  • Sea
  • Brief

• Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Told