Long Quotes

• In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'

  

  Katie Hafner
  • Life
  • Question
  • California

• 'Pain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.'

  

  James Dobson
  • Long
  • Pain

• I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

  

  John Grisham
  • Time
  • Long
  • Popular

• I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.

  

  David John Haskins Bauhaus
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• I'm not advocating spending less on the elderly, but I am strongly advocating spending more on kids while also putting the country on a sound, long-term fiscal trajectory. To do that, we have to reduce the rate of growth of entitlement-related expenditures and add more revenues.

  

  John Delaney
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Growth

• I think there's a lot of Democrats that would favor reducing the corporate tax rate as long as we find a way to close loopholes so we have a way to pay for it.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Long

• We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

  

  George A. Moore
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Sea

• I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Long

• If we can keep our heads—and our nerve—the long-awaited economic miracle is in our grasp. Britain can achieve in the Seventies what Germany and France achieved in the Fifties and Sixties.

  

  Denis Healey
  • Long
  • Miracle

• I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

  

  Edwin Armstrong
  • Time
  • World
  • Imagination

• Fitness has always been one of my strengths. I can do all the long-distance runs. When I was at school and we entered the competitions, I used to do the 100m, 200m, and the 1500m as well, so it's never just been a pace thing.

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • School
  • Distance
  • Fitness

• When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.

  

  David McCullough
  • People
  • Long
  • Army

• I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.

  

  Brian Littrell
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Band

• I don't go, 'It is now time to change Americans' perception of Muslims. It's going to be a long day.' I think you just try to be unique and try to be yourself, and if something good comes of that, then great.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Understanding
  • Race
  • Motivated

• I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

  

  Katharine Isabelle
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You still got that light in your eye,And our day is comin’ by and by.I’m travellin’ this long road here with you;We still gotta long way, we still gotta long way to go.

  

  Gerry Rafferty
  • Long
  • Light
  • Road

• Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • Up
  • Book
  • Taken

• The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Man
  • Businessman

• Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Long
  • Wind
  • Autumn

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