Long Quotes

• Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Home
  • Alone

• I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Time
  • God
  • Trying

• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Money
  • Happiness

• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Control
  • Worry

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Words
  • Beginning
  • End

• It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

  

  Bjorn Borg
  • Long
  • Financial

• The years went by so fast and, even though I've had children, which makes me feel I've lived a long time, I feel I didn't really grow up. I want to fulfill the desire I have to do things that are beautiful and meaningful.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

  

  Bessie Smith
  • Long
  • Road

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Way
  • Film
  • Moment

• I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.

  

  Bob Beamon
  • Life
  • Music
  • Jump

• How do you actually green the supply chain is a challenge. The easier part is to do what we do; the difficult part is to get all your clients to long process will take time.

  

  Jamshyd Godrej
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Green

• A long time ago I discovered that when employees are passionate about their work, customers are passionate about the company. Kevin Sheridan knows that secret too. His insights on finding the right people and getting them engaged can change your culture forever.

  

  Quint Studer
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Running
  • Lawyer
  • Office

• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Time
  • Long

• I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

  

  Geoff Stults
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

  

  David Cameron
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • History

• A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

  

  Tom Holt
  • Work
  • Wise
  • Achievement

• We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • First
  • China

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Long
  • Cool

• My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Looks
  • Hands
  • Feet

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