Long Quotes
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In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.
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Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
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I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.
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As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.
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Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.
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Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.
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Well there are tough decisions necessary in budgets. I agree there are tough decisions necessary to ensure the long-term health of the budget. What I don't accept and will never accept is that those decisions must be unfair as a matter of course.
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Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree. "What are you doing?" you ask. "Can't you see?" comes the impatient reply. "I'm sawing down this tree." "You look exhausted!" you exclaim. "How long have you been at it?" "Over five hours," he returns, "and I'm beat! This is hard work." 'Well, why don't you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?" you inquire. "I'm sure it would go a lot faster." "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," the man says emphatically. "I'm too busy sawing!"
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When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
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You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.
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Short-cuts lead to long delays.
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I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
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Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.
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Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
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As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.
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I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.
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A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'
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As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?
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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
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Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called "self-interestedness". This was not a portrait of man "warts and all". It was all wart - except that the dominating attribute was not considered a blemish.
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But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
