Long Quotes

• When are we going to start getting it done? I don't know. I know we're here for the long haul. So, at some point, we've got to start getting it done if we're going to win football games.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Done
  • Football
  • Goal

• In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Long
  • Success

• My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Business

• I'm a terrible long-term planner.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Long

• I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Everything was okay, as long as I could dream. Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • True
  • Dream
  • Amazing

• I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Enough
  • Company
  • Records

• You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Want
  • Enough

• It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • World
  • Mind
  • Law

• I've gone through many phases in music in my life. Before I was signed, I was making completely different music, and my fan base has followed me. They continue to follow me as the music progresses and as I grow as an artist. As long as I stay true and don't pretend to be someone I'm not, I hope they'll come along with it.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • War
  • Society
  • Depression

• It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Prayer
  • Gospel
  • Pace

• The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

  

  John Bruton
  • Time
  • May
  • Financial

• I have long ties to the women's community.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • Long
  • Women
  • Community

• I want to have a long career in the NBA. First, I want to be an All-Star, and hopefully one day I can win a ring with the New York Knicks.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Long
  • Career
  • Star

• I had applied to become French - or, rather, Franco-American, as I'm now a dual citizen - partly because I could: I'd lived and paid taxes here for long enough.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Long
  • American

• I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Long

• Once I've got something that I feel is strong, if I get long enough to think about it, it'll turn into something. I'll start thinking about the drums - what the drums are doing, what the bass is doing. Then, if I can remember it by the time I get to a recording device, it'll turn into a song.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'

  

  Jake Epstein
  • Long
  • Singing

• What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Single

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