Long Quotes

• When I started my first blog years ago, I just wanted to share my perspective. For a long time, models had been these mute pretty faces - and I wanted to have a voice.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Perspective

• Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Remember
  • Prayer
  • Praying

• 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

• There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Long
  • Taken
  • Possession

• Before we can change anything in our life, we have to recognize that this is the way it is meant to be right now. For me, acceptance has become what I call the long sigh of the soul. It's the closed eyes in prayer, perhaps even the quiet tears. It's "all right," as in "All right, You lead, I'll follow." And it's "all right" as in "Everything is going to turn out all right." This is simply part of the journey.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Soul
  • Eye
  • Prayer

• I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

  

  Brad Ausmus
  • Long
  • Guy

• You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Good
  • Long
  • Together

• I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

  

  Norman Granz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who's trying to drink himself to death on an Indian reservation in Dakota. It was written for me, so it's something I would love to do.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Drink

• We can beat anyone on our day - so long as we score.

  

  Alex Totten
  • Long
  • Beat
  • Score

• 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

• We have to be willing to engage ISIS militarily, economically, and even on the Internet without delay. For instance, I think we waited too long to engage al-Qaida and the Taliban in Pakistan. And we should not make a similar mistake with ISIS elements throughout the world.

  

  Jason Kander
  • World
  • Long
  • Mistake

• Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

  

  Caligula
  • Long
  • Hate
  • Evil

• I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Long
  • Society

• You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Years
  • Young
  • Bears

• The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • Long
  • Insurance

• It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Time
  • Long

• 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

• Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.

  

  William Feather
  • Life
  • May
  • Goods

• In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Long
  • Winter
  • November

• I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Design
  • Politics
  • Absence

• I learned as a mascot that rules don't really apply to you. As long as you don't go crazy with that. You want to go be the 12th man on a football play, they might have an objection, but otherwise, if you stay out of the way of the game, you can do most anything.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Game
  • Crazy
  • Football

• Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • People
  • Business
  • Service

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