Quotes about long
long decision dumb
Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones. Warren Buffett
long waiting insightful
We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.
long-walks expression tree
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul. Vincent Van Gogh
long life-is problem
Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
long paint long-time
To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
long
A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved
long may lasts
The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created Walter Bagehot
long myth stills
As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. Walter Benjamin
long humanity historical
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well
long fields rolling
In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.
long news unbiased
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism -- that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased. Walter Cronkite
long heaven way
If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life. William Beveridge
long secret liberty
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it. William Blackstone
long film farmers
It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"]. Werner Herzog
long done adequate
What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.
long attention pay
A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something. Wayne Thiebaud
long enough tricky
I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself. Wayne White
long locks matter
Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small. Wallace Stegner
long realizing born
Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
long water forever
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits. I've swallowed three hooks and am still hungry. Hence the howls. What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but strech out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for eternity. Samuel Beckett
long stalking solemn
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
long poetry march
Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng
long horrible effects
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
long answers long-life
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
long waiting forever
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
long way obstacles
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. Sally Ride
long people trying
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you. Salma Hayek
long people
Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say. Salman Rushdie
long special cost
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
long lists judgment
I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out. Ryan Reynolds
long littles world
A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this. Rudy Rucker
long news pieces
a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long. Jostein Gaarder
long coincidence chains
Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.