Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Elbert Hubbard

No matter how long you live, die young.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

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.

Edsger Dijkstra

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.

People tend to stay longer when there are more things to do and tend to spend more money.

After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.

David Brown

Everything went fine. It took longer than I like, but I'm slow and meticulous because I like to get things done right.

Everything is a secret pact if it's under negotiation. After the United States disclosed the official documents, it was no longer a secret pact.

There was a big knee-jerk reaction to the Moody's upgrade, but longer term, I don't think much has changed.

This is a major declaration of intent. We no longer want to be talked about--we now want to do the talking for ourselves.

Jason Scott Lee

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.

You're planning to be around for a while longer though?

You might want to take an annuity if you have super longevity in your family.

Diane Arbus

They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.

You don't find them, but they're no longer with their parents.

It's a stalemate. Funds' net longs are the lowest since mid-2003 but inventories are also very low.

Alex Jones

It's a transitional year. And we're going to be in transition for longer than a year.

It's a tribute to the success and longevity of his career.

Nick Faldo

It's 100 yards longer and 30 yards narrower. Other than that, it's pretty much the same.

It was the longest six, seven months of my life. It was draining.

It was the longest 17 weeks I've ever been through. I wouldn't wish that on anybody. It was very stressful.

Gertrude Stein

it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.

Gertrude Stein

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Gertrude Stein

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Gerard Way

You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others.

Gerard Way

One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.

Hans Blix

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

Hal Sutton

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.

Greta Garbo

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Gretchen Rubin

[S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.