Long Quotes

• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Pleasure

• I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friendships

• For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Pain
  • Drama
  • Horse

• I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.

  

  Jock Sturges
  • Time
  • Long

• While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Believe
  • Happiness
  • Habit

• Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Laughter

• I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

  

  Liz Phair
  • Time
  • Long

• wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Giving

• This is going to be a long three minutes here.

  

  Billy Packer
  • Going
  • Minutes
  • Here

• The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we'll be blessed with cursings. However, the assaults against the church will be turned around, and everything that the enemy meant for harm will ultimately be used for good.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Church

• We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Heaven

• As long as I give the best performance I can give, I know I can't do any more.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Long

• When you're with somebody for a long time or have a child with someone, you start to expect them to be this person you had in mind. Then if they don't fill the expectation, resentment starts to come up.

  

  Jaime Pressly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I'm really lucky that I've had a little gang of people who I've been involved with for a long time... I've been really lucky to have a gang of people who have always been there to encourage me to get on with it. Styles come and go, but I try not to take any notice of that.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Style

• We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Values
  • Tradition
  • Caring

• A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Long

• Instant, soluble coffee has long been the unspeakable wasteland of the coffee business. Conventional wisdom would be that no premium brand should go near it. But Howard Schultz's vision from day one has been to bring quality coffee to the mass market.

  

  John Quelch
  • Business
  • Quality
  • Wisdom

• It's almost ludicrous that I'm playing a game and getting paid for it. I'm just going to ride it as long as I can.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Long
  • Game

• Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Long
  • Distance

• The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

  

  Ivor Novello
  • Waiting
  • Hours
  • Scene

• And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well - but ’tis not true!

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Long
  • True

• I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.

  

  John McCain
  • Long
  • Live
  • Hate

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