Long Quotes

• Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist' and, if we get our way, Shakespeare will still be read even in school.

  

  John Major
  • Country
  • School
  • Morning

• It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Why
  • Relationship

• I think we're so advanced when it comes to watching narrative material. I mean, it's all we do is consume content all day long. So when a character walks onscreen, you immediately start making connections for that character: Is that a good guy? Is that a bad guy?

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not leave our Afghan partners unable to guarantee long-term security or risk Afghanistan becoming a terrorist safe haven again.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Long
  • Risk

• A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Book

• A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

  

  Allen Klein
  • Long
  • Perspective

• I think every role you get is going to be a powerful one. As long as you go in with the mindset of, 'Yeah, I'm going to make the most of this.' So that's the kind of attitude I take into each role that I play.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • Powerful
  • Attitude
  • Mindset

• I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Long
  • Pool

• The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Live
  • Point
  • Nobly

• I love sleeping in my son's silly racecar bed. I love watching hours of 'Yo Gabba Gabba.' I love long playdates with his best friend Jack and traveling with Zev. Most of all I love coming home from work and seeing Zev run up to me saying, 'My mommy's home! My mommy's home!'

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• You'll be much better equipped for a long life in pictures if you have a sound theatrical background.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Life
  • Long

• I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.

  

  Brion James
  • Movie
  • High
  • Hand

• Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

  

  John Foxe
  • Long
  • Period

• The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Long
  • Stop

• As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Up
  • Real
  • Death

• I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.

  

  Johnny Damon
  • Time
  • Long

• The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival and progress can be possible.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • May
  • Progress

• I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Language
  • Broken
  • Lovers

• Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

  

  Ken Venturi
  • People
  • Giving
  • Cocky

• Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Giving

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