Long Quotes

• These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

  

  Peter Sarsgaard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

  

  Edward Klein
  • Long

• I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Good
  • Music
  • Soul

• But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Government

• It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

  

  Christian Marclay
  • Good
  • Long

• I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Live
  • Wonder
  • Depression

• For so long, we were labeled - you're a girly girl, you're a tomboy, you're this or that - but now we can do what we want. One style doesn't define me.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Girl
  • Style
  • Girly

• If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care so long as they sang without dissonance.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Long
  • Song
  • Calm

• It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Breathe

• I've long struggled with my body image and have worked hard to achieve a healthy weight.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Long

• It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Live
  • Cool
  • Car

• Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

  

  John Keegan
  • Men
  • Long
  • Why

• The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Water

• By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Grace

• Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

  

  William Standish Knowles
  • Study
  • Math
  • Forgotten

• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • God
  • Country
  • King

• America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Together

• At night there are no more farmers, no more farms.At night the fields dream, the fields are the forest.The boy stands looking at the foxAs if, if he looked long enough - he looks at it.Or is it the fox is looking at the boy?The trees can't tell the two of them apart.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Boy

• As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Long
  • Country
  • American

• There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Long
  • Eyes
  • Door

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