Long Quotes

• The author of Amelia, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in secret.

  

  George Borrow
  • Fashion
  • Author
  • Abuse

• Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Universe

• The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

  

  John Barrasso
  • Long

• I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • Long
  • Children
  • Positive

• With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Morning
  • Style
  • Risk

• It's not by accident that this has not been resolved in 50 years, but I believe this is the best chance we will have for a long time for there to be a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Believe
  • Chance
  • Accidents

• I've bespelled this locket, for you; my own, my mate. The day has come when death forced us to part. You must know that I for you, forever, I shall wait. So until we meet again I hold your love safely within my heart. Remember, your oath was to temper strength with mercy. No matter how long apart we shall be, I hold you to that oath eternally... eternally...

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • Death

• The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Problem

• It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Life
  • Long
  • Meaningful

• I don't remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn't gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh's name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Great
  • Live
  • Remember

• If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that's the way it was for a long time. I'm a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

  

  Frank Gifford
  • Time
  • Father
  • Friend

• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

  

  William James
  • Respect
  • Struggle
  • Perception

• We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

  

  Francois Rabelais
  • Long
  • Desire

• We've long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.

  

  Charles Best
  • Long
  • School

• I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't you happy to have me as a guest," you know? But artists did accept us and we remained friends for many, many years, many of them as long as they lived; like Lucie Rie and Hans Coper were very good friends, and it was wonderful.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Country
  • Artist
  • Wonderful

• Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

  

  E. Jean Carroll
  • Up
  • Together
  • Powerful

• How the original 'Cosmos' affected me personally was long-term. I wasn't born early enough to see the original series, but after getting a hold of it in my teen years, it was one of the driving forces behind my passion for science.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Science
  • Passion
  • Driving

• I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Time
  • Home
  • Scared

• EPA has a long history of relying on science that was not created by the agency itself. This often means that the science is not available to the public and, therefore, cannot be reproduced and verified.

  

  John Barrasso
  • Long
  • History
  • Science

• A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Period

• Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • American
  • Health
  • Taken

• I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • People
  • Wanted
  • Musical

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