After Long Quotes

#1. Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing.

Bernard Cornwell

#2. You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

Alan Cumming

#3. The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. At least it was never dull, my darling. And you will be remembered long after we've all turned to dust. But so will I.

Sharon Kay Penman

#5. It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

C. Robert Cargill

#6. Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day

Peter McWilliams

#7. When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen people. I noticed a group of priests looking down on us from the upper deck and I felt that somehow the Pope and his Dogmas had triumphed after all.

Barbara Pym

#8. There are a million things out there that can kill you, and about half of them are invisible. If you're going to stick your body parts into them just to see what will happen, even after I've warned you about them, then you won't live long, and you certainly can't work on my ship.

J.Z. Colby

#9. After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Cullen Hightower

#10. Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway. They were all lost. It was so long ago, young man. To you it is a history story. To me it is my life.

Joseph G. Peterson

#11. Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.

Peter Capaldi

#12. I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

Donald Hall

#13. Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
To wear away this long age of three hours
Between our after-supper and bedtime?

William Shakespeare

#14. After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.

David Talbot

#15. Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.

Bobby Cox

#16. In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.

Seth Godin

#17. The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a car came by on the highway, and its lights showed the ragged man shuffling along the road, his head hanging down and his hands in the black coat pockets.

John Steinbeck

#18. Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct ...

Joel Achenbach

#19. After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.

Wayne Dyer

#20. It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

Lee Kuan Yew

#21. I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#22. The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

Paul Newman

#23. Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking of
her for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out of
hand after a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine months,
and four days ago.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#24. I pictured Phillip in the tree. How his arm stayed stretched out, his hand empty, long after my dad pulled me away.

Jillian Dodd

#25. It would be nice, after this was over, to take a long raft trip. Maybe Jen and I could paddle through Westwater and its ass-clenching rapids, then lounge on the banks in Moab for a week or two. That would be heaven: a raft trip with a beer in my hand instead of a rifle. I

Erik Storey

#26. Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much of our structure as the result of culture than it is to think of men anatomically like ourselves slowly developing culture.

Sherwood L. Washburn

#27. The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do ... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#28. I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#29. One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

Matthew Hayden

#30. (This was long after hairdressers; in truth, ever since there have been women, there have been hairdressers, Adam being the first, though the King James scholars do their very best to muddy this point.)

William Goldman

#31. After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.

Don Paterson

#32. I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

Marjane Satrapi

#33. He raised his head and summoned his endurance to take him farther. His body was finished, but he remembered Yesugei telling him a man's will could carry him long after the weak flesh had given up.

Conn Iggulden

#34. My gaze dipped and ran over her legs. legs unbelievable long for someone so short ... and those shorts were short. tiny pockets, too.
Yeah, i was not going after those keys

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#35. Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

Eric Shanteau

#36. And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I will disappoint and confuse him, that I've been alone my whole life, and that it may really be too hard and too late, not even desirable, after such long, familiar cold, to be known, and heard, and seen.

Amy Bloom

#37. It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

Julia Ward Howe

#38. Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

Graham Joyce

#39. I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.

Allen Ginsberg

#40. There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal;

Alexis De Tocqueville

#41. I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep."
"That's all," Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, "a long clean sleep.

Annie Fisher

#42. Sometimes words were useless. It was the deed that would be remembered, anyway, long after the words had faded into the wind.

L. Joseph Shosty

#43. These woods are second or third growth and sadly lost their leeks long ago. It turns out that when forests around here grow back after agricultural clearing, the trees come back readily but the understory plants do not.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#44. Life can be a real son of a bitch sometimes, bringing things back around long after you've said good-bye.

David Arnold

#45. At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.

Beeban Kidron

#46. retrouvailles, another one of those words that do not translate into English, which means "the happiness of meeting someone you love again after a long time.

Martha Hall Kelly

#47. fingers in his mind long after he couldn't see them anymore. His urge

Mark T. Sullivan

#48. It was the feeling you get when you fall face first into bed after a long day. That's what being near Beck felt like.

R.S. Grey

#49. After a too-long moment, the crown prince spoke. "I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect." His words were coated with glorious boredom.

Sarah J. Maas

#50. The trouble with his daughter, though, was not ordinary naughtiness but the infuriating way she had of relentlessly pursuing the thread of an argument long after she should have put it down. It always flustered him. She

Terry Pratchett

#51. After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.

Norman Doidge

#52. The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

Arshile Gorky

#53. I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.

Peter Landesman

#54. Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Thomas Malory

#55. No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

Patricia Hampl

#56. Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

Cormac McCarthy

#57. As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.

Juan Enriquez

#58. Some people, after all, don't care who they yell at as long as they have a reason to keep shouting.

Ally Carter

#59. Children are God's way of letting us know His work will continue, even long after we are gone.

J.W. Lord

#60. We've been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while.

Melissa De La Cruz

#61. A recent study shows that standing at work for long periods of time is bad for you, after earlier research indicated that sitting for too long at work is bad for you. So really the only thing we know is, work is bad for you.

Jimmy Fallon

#62. I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Anna Neagle

#63. They sat in companionable silence for a few moments after that, while the sun settled into its downward arc in the west and long shadows began to creep across the face of the city.

Scott Lynch

#64. No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

Edie Brickell

#65. Throughout my life, I sought power and profit for myself, for my rate. Now, at long last, I think I understand the meaning of a crime against the Mantle. After this, no need to seek balance. I will await my penance here.

Greg Bear

#66. One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

Frans De Waal

#67. After all, in fairy tales, there was only one thing to do. In every story with a long sleep and a waking in it. An easy thing, a pretty thing. Standard currency.

Catherynne M Valente

#68. The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.

Milton Friedman

#69. After all, the way I see it, it takes only one person to murder you. It also takes only one person to fill your heart with the kind of joy that slaps you straight off your high horse. For the first time in a long time, I found myself believing in the possibility of both.

Alida Nugent

#70. The seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

Vicki Baum

#71. He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Gautama Buddha

#72. I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Eric Bana

#73. Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#74. The couple's love, long the unrivalled source of high-society conversation, collective rumor, and feminine envy, was transformed into an insignificant particle, caught up, along with millions of other particles, in chaotic motion. It was not a case of Brownian motion. It was a case of war.

Filip Florian

#75. He'd continue to cry passionately, long after he'd forgotten why he was crying to begin with.

Jonathan Tropper

#76. Ninety eight percent of the time, my husband is sweet. Really sweet. Not the sticky-sweet like cheap candy-chocolates that adhere stubbornly to every crevice in your mouth, but genuine sweet like a Godiva chocolate whose taste lingers long after you have finished relishing it.

Preeti Shenoy

#77. Not even after I'd told him about my secret life-long crush on Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter series. That hair, the voice, that whole uptight baddie/aristocrat thing... It was embarrassing, but the guy was just yum.

Cookie O'Gorman

#78. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while.

Neil Gaiman

#79. I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.

Asif Kapadia

#80. When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.

Thomas Sowell

#81. I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.

Laini Taylor

#82. Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

Christian Dior

#83. Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Lynne Cheney

#84. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years?

George Eliot

#85. Ana was the original sad girl. She held the unofficial title long before her death. We all became sad girls after that. At her funeral, everyone wore black because it was customary and because it was the color that best defined Ana.

Lang Leav

#86. Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable.

John Roberts

#87. By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it.

V.S. Carnes

#88. This place had been here long before him. It would go on sighing and breathing and being itself after he had gone, the land lapping on and on, watching, waiting, getting on with its own life.

Kate Grenville

#89. Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

Charles Kingsley

#90. I wondered if I could call my experience in the chapel prayer
not a long list of asking, after all, or a rote string of words, but rather a kind of sacred listening. [p, 355]

Kim Edwards

#91. Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

Thomas Sowell

#92. After I said that, for the first time in a long time, I watched as Lee threw his head back and laughed.

Kristen Ashley

#93. Pave the path. Inspire. Make sure you are missed by the people who matter long after you have gone.

Pooja Ruprell

#94. Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run ... I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

Rebecca Stead

#95. I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#96. The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.

Herman Gorter

#97. But of course we do not like to listen to our mothers," said Mrs. Ali, smiling. "At least, not until long after we are mothers ourselves.

Helen Simonson

#98. Iraq and Afghanistan will, over time, become stable. But the War on Terror will continue long after Iraq and Afghanistan have had success in standing up their own governments.

Peter Pace

#99. Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after ... unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it.

John Owen

#100. After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?

Brandon Mull