Quotes about long
long empires inquiring
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. Edward Gibbon
long brain teeth
The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain. Edith Widder
long people half
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say. Edith Wharton
long heaven buried
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.
long waiting president
What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait? David Remnick
long sheets my-own
The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own. David Hewson
long conviction left
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. David Brainerd
long done life-is
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
long decision way
You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic. Ben Wheatley
long trying relax
Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time. Benedict Cumberbatch
long exotic world
I don't want to become more famous than what I am. I'm not interested in being in movies that are going to be shown all around the world and get a massive audience, so I'm interested in doing foreign movies as long as it stays an exceptional case and is exotic, but I don't want to go there[Hollywood]. Audrey Tautou
long people want
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. Audre Lorde
long suffering trying
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences. Arthur Rimbaud
long poet senses
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
long done architecture
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. Arne Jacobsen
long literature world
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place. Arnold Bennett
long people comfort
People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat. Antony Starr
long liberty use
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Frederic Bastiat
long desire succeed
Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed. Denis Waitley
long feel-good able
The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work. Denis Leary
long lists wanted
I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that. Deborah Norville
long safe made
You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay. Deb Caletti
long together sometimes
This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.
long perfect goal
God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants us to become perfect,2 and if we stay on the path of discipleship, one day we will. It’s OK that you’re not quite there yet. Keep working on it, but stop punishing yourself. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
long mad lists
I have a long list of things that make me mad. Dick Cavett
long heaven soul
So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. Diana Gabaldon
long needs said
You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
long has-beens finished
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money. Edgar Degas
long healthy trying
It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally. Elizabeth Banks
long standing monument
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
long problem
Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly. Edwin Land
long looks enough
I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable. Edward Klein
long littles way
Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way. Edoardo Ponti