Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederik Pohl

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

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.

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.

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.

Bryan Cranston

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

Nathan Fillion

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

Ken Wilber

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

Irvin D. Yalom

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

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.

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.

Miguel Syjuco

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Joseph Barbera

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

John Cage

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

Mahatma Gandhi

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

Henry Van Dyke

Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

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.

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.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

John D. Rockefeller

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

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.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

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.

Marguerite Duras

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

Miriam Makeba

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

Rabih Alameddine

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

Noam Chomsky

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.