Top 100 Has Long Quotes
#2. Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.
Rick Perry
#3. Joining finances can be tricky. Money has long topped the list of topics couples fight about.
Jean Chatzky
#5. Google has long been a leftist company.
Ben Shapiro
#6. It has long been known that if you want to see me turn into a raging, snarling beast, then all you have to do is use any combination of the words 'chill out,' 'chilling,' or - my maximum red rag - 'chillax.'
John Niven
#7. To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
Ma Jun
#8. Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.
David Quammen
#10. The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.
Rand Paul
#11. Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of sectarian influence has long been one of the primary struggles of believers in freedom of religion.
Joseph Leon Blau
#12. It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great American stage of Broadway. In fact, I've dedicated much of the latter half of my life to ensuring the story of the internment is known.
George Takei
#13. Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.
Eric Schlosser
#14. San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom
#15. History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house - one group always wielded more power and influence.
Daniel Humm
#16. Philadelphia's Schuylkill River has long been the mother of waters for mid-Atlantic rowers, just as the Charles, which separates Boston from Cambridge, is for New England boaters.
Roger Morris
#17. Nolan has long been a devout subscriber to the cause. A director famed for being able to get a multimillion dollar project off the ground with only his own name as collateral, he
Anonymous
#18. Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters ... and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white.
George R R Martin
#19. As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
Candice Millard
#20. The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.
Rose George
#21. Even the homes we leave on purpose, the families we break away from to be ourselves or someone else, call us back again and again, to a place that has long since ceased to be home yet still holds power over us.
Rachel Friedman
#22. The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.
Howard Coble
#23. Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire.
Paul Ramadge
#24. So little cost to comprehend that what has long been lawful, over centuries, comes forever out of Nature.
Euripides
#25. No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.
Austin O'Malley
#26. For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.
Barry Svrluga
#27. Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ...
Frontinus
#28. The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.
George Gaylord Simpson
#29. I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
Ed Stoppard
#30. Grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown.
John Carlos Frey
#32. Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.
Max Heindel
#33. It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
Georges Simenon
#34. Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.
Walt Whitman
#35. Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.
Michael Dirda
#36. An animal?" Thorne said, and she realized he'd been waiting for her to further explain what she was seeing.
"It has long legs and horns and ... and it's beautiful."
"Oh, good, we're back to this, then.
Marissa Meyer
#37. Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#38. One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.
Lester Thurow
#39. hardly any ruler lives so long as to have time to accustom to right methods a city which has long been accustomed to wrong. Wherefore,
Niccolo Machiavelli
#40. Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields ...
James Elkins
#41. The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#42. The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.
Alex Morrison
#43. It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.
Becky Johnson
#44. Everyone is so desensitised that the potency of artfully deployed italics has long been lost. It was good enough for H. P. Lovecraft, but apparently it isn't good enough for the modern world, filled as it is with obtuse bastards.
Jonathan L. Howard
#45. The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.
John Ashcroft
#46. I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
Franz Kafka
#47. Today Plato is nearly forgotten. His beliefs include the notion that people who govern should be intelligent, rational, self-controlled, and in love with wisdom, an idea that has long been discredited.
Bobby Henderson
#49. The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.
Klaus Schwab
#50. I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
James E. Rogers
#51. There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.
Daniel Handler
#52. The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
James Wolfe
#53. India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies ... But it is India that's now undergoing its own revolution.
Sundar Pichai
#54. Trees are silent guards, they are the listeners and they hold knowledge mankind has long forgotten." - The Wolf and The Druidess
Cornelia Amiri
#55. There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present.
Paulo Coelho
#56. It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.
Sheila Heti
#57. I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!
William Geist
#58. Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Gary Hamel
#59. The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
Gary Locke
#60. It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you. We heartily disagree! For most people, it is much harder to say I don't know.
Steven D. Levitt
#61. Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Vladimir Nabokov
#62. Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.
Steve Erickson
#64. It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
Harry Browne
#65. Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.
Gregory Bateson
#66. Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#67. Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.
Elliott Abrams
#68. But I contend that most of what we're consuming today is no longer, strictly speaking, food at all, and how we're consuming it - in the car, in front of the TV, and, increasingly, alone - is not really eating, at least not in the sense that civilization has long understood the term.
Michael Pollan
#69. ....The chemists' ingenuity in devising insecticides has long ago outrun biological knowledge of the way these poisons affect the living organism.
Rachel Carson
#70. he did not reckon with the power that gold has upon which a dragon has long brooded, nor with dwarvish hearts.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#71. Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.
James Gleick
#72. A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.
Charles Caleb Colton
#73. The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time.
David Mitchell
#74. It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds ... that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.
Hilaire Belloc
#75. The movement that has long called itself "evangelical" is in fact better labeled "soterian." That is, we have thought we were talking about "the gospel" when in fact we were concentrating on "salvation.
Scot McKnight
#76. It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
Gottfried Leibniz
#77. It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
Mary Ritter Beard
#78. In many cases science has confirmed what culture has long known
Michael Pollan
#79. The time of Milosevic has long passed.
Ivica Dacic
#80. The assumption that individual freedoms are guaranteed by freedom of the market and of trade is a cardinal feature of neoliberal thinking, and it has long dominated the US stance towards the rest of the world.
David Harvey
#81. Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."
Bill Gates
#82. It seems in this day and age, people are banking on a Faith that has long since checked out.
Solange Nicole
#83. Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.
Edward Jenks
#84. Dried mud flats, sun-warmed, have a delicious touch, cushioned and smooth; so has long grass at morning, hot in the sun, but still cool and wet when the foot sinks into it, like food melting to a new flavour in the mouth. And a flower caught by the stalk between the toes is a small enchantment.
Nan Shepherd
#85. There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.
Marcus Samuelsson
#86. A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.
Donald Kingsbury
#87. North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.
Robin Hayes
#88. It has long been a bug bear of mine ... it needs to change, very simply.
Lucinda Creighton
#89. Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.
Rennie Ellis
#90. Mir has long since been deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere.
Chris Hadfield
#91. Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.
Frans De Waal
#92. The time is gone when mere accidents could still happen to me; and what could still come to me now that was not mine already? What returns, what finally comes home to me, is my own self and what of myself has long been in strange lands and scattered among all things and accidents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.
Laurent Lamothe
#94. The people working in my field also are quite skeptical of our ability to do this. It ultimately boils down to the problem of building complex systems that are reliable and that work, and that problem has long predated the problem of access to encryption keys.
Matt Blaze
#95. At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.
Ernest Thompson Seton
#96. And that's how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls.
Jordan Sonnenblick
#97. Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
Jim Sensenbrenner
#98. Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.
Benjamin Disraeli
#99. I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#100. However, it has long been known that diazepam and other similar drugs cause falls in the elderly, and such falls are often the precursor of death. It has also been suspected that, by some unspecified mechanism, diazepam (and sleeping draughts of all kinds) promote death. A
Theodore Dalrymple
