Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis D. Brandeis

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.

Mahatma Gandhi

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

Hilaire Belloc

It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.

Eleanor Porter

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

Jeremy Brett

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Long ago certain truths were discovered... And must always reappear.

Jesse Jackson

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

Chris Hardwick

Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

Frank Warren

I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.

Fareed Zakaria

If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.

Gregory Maguire

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she...

Iggy Pop

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

Frederik Pohl

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

Bryan Cranston

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

Jeremy Paxman

I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC?s coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.

Harold Brodkey

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

Evo Morales

We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list of toxic substances. Scientists proved long ago that coca leaves are not toxic.

H. L. Mencken

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

Jasper Fforde

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

Ginni Rometty

We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

John F. Kennedy

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

Jon Stewart

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Joyce Carol Oates

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

Paolo Bacigalupi

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

Paulo Coelho

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

John D. Rockefeller

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.