Long Quotes
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Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.
Ben Casnocha
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When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.
Cynthia Nixon
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For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.
John Garamendi
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I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.
Lennie James
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Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
Jean Harlow
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You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.
Christen Press
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I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.
Jason Mraz
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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
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We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
Andrew Wiles
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The people here in fact seem to live in the streets, which are alive from morning until night, not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the 'long-green', but with a pleasure-loving crowd that doesn’t care what it does or where it goes, so that it has a good time.
Edward Hopper
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
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Kristol's warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists.
Pat Buchanan
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So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.
Oswald Chambers
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The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
Jack Vance
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Growing up, I saw my mother cry exactly once. The morning of her brother's funeral. One long tear ran down her cheek through her make up until she caught it near her mouth and patted it dry with a tissue she pulled from inside her sleeve.
Kelly Corrigan
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And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.
Lord Dunsany
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We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
Anthony Holden
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Than a successive title long and dark,Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.
John Dryden
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Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.
Kerby Jean-Raymond
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'You can help me to keep my head cool,' was the answer. 'You stand for the world of common sense which will always win in the long run. When I'm inclined to run amok you'll remind me of England. You'll lower the temperature.'
John Buchan
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I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
Matthew Macfadyen
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Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.
LeBron James
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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
Lech Walesa
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Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.
Sandra Day O'Connor