Top 100 How Long Quotes
#1. For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.
Chili Davis
#2. The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you are not powerful. You might be quite evolved, but you have no access to that evolution.
Frederick Lenz
#3. I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.
Maggie Nelson
#4. No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.
Harvey MacKay
#5. The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
Marcus Buckingham
#6. And, of course, this time, there was no question of him not succeeding - he intended to get his ring on her finger no matter how long it took. This
Stephanie Laurens
#7. And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
Wendell Berry
#8. People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near.
Jenny Han
#9. Artemis: How long will it take you to prepare the time spell?
N1 chewed his knuckle: About as long as it takes you to take your clothes off.
"Aaarrk," Artemis half choked.
Eoin Colfer
#10. 22 "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Anonymous
#11. I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.
Sarah Zettel
#12. I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job.
Charlotte Ross
#13. Javier to Hunter: How long you and Dargangelo been married?
Pamela Clare
#14. Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.
Haruki Murakami
#15. How long have you been standing there?"
"Just long enough to see you give Daemon the middle finger."
"He deserved it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#16. Be concerned with how you live than with how long
Gold
#17. [after guard dogs frozen mid-attack] 'How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?' ask Yulia. 'I want to make friends with them. Otherwise, i'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to affect my personality and sexual preferences.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#18. When it was Hearts turn, she related a vision she had: that River hadn't wanted to be born, preferring to stay with God in heaven. God had convinced him to go, and they haggled over how long, settling on twenty-three years.
Gavin Edwards
#19. Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.
-Ehlena's thoughts
J.R. Ward
#20. How long do you have to stay and socialize?"
"Well, I still have to butter up the president of the Jupiter Point Business Coalition."
"I do hope you mean literally."
His eyes darkened with desire and he pulled her tighter against him. "As you wish, milady.
Jennifer Bernard
#21. HOW LONG??? No rules on time .. the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen.
Rhonda Byrne
#22. How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about this harmful world?
The only thing it can take from you is your body.
Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking.
Rumi
#23. Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!
Morrissey
#24. Why is everyone complaining?" Daisy asked impatiently. "This
is exciting! We get to perform. Do you know how long I have been
waiting for this day?"
"Unfortunately, yes," Sarah said flatly.
"About as long as I have been dreading it," Iris muttered.
Julia Quinn
#25. Keep still!" Tria was parsistantly kicking back and it seemed to be working "Ow!"
"You three are a resistant bunch aren't you..." The man said angrily "No really how long did it take you to work that out." Agres replied sarcastically
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#26. No matter how long we've walked life's pathway to mediocrity, we can always choose to switch paths. Always. It's never too late. We can find our voice.
Stephen R. Covey
#27. How long does it take for your soul to recognize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction. The body and soul can synchronize. page 76
Ann Voskamp
#28. It seems no matter how long we live, we never seem to know what we're meant to be doing.
Jacinta Maree
#29. Just curious? That's a bullshit phrase."
"It's a simple question. How long - "
"No, it's a signal that bullshit is about to follow. It's the hat that bullshit puts on before it goes out to get the paper.
Daryl Gregory
#30. You're such a stalker, Seth. How long were you standing there?"
"I am not a stalker, and I was standing there long enough to realize you have no self-control and you're unstable. I kind of like that about you - mainly because I find it entertaining.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#31. Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#32. There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
Randeep Hooda
#33. It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.
Amit Ray
#34. How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Charles Lindbergh
#35. How long does it take for a star to collapse? How many trillions of years?
Rainbow Rowell
#36. After a minute, you continue writing.
she screams again.
you wonder how long this can go on.
Raymond Carver
#37. The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.
Terry Goodkind
#38. Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.
Tom Frieden
#39. Where are you, oh heart, which I loved from the start? Did you ever arrive? How long must we stay apart?
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#40. I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president's policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.
Austan Goolsbee
#41. I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.
Joe Theismann
#42. Here's the hell of it: madness doesn't announce itself. There isn't time to prepare for its coming. It shows up without calling and sits in your kitchen ashing in your plant. You ask how long it plans to stay; it shrugs its shoulders, gets up, and starts digging through the fridge.
Marya Hornbacher
#43. How old are you?" she asked.
My answer was automatic and ingrained. "Seventeen."
"And how long have you been seventeen?"
I tried not to smile at the patronizing tone. "A while," I admitted.
"Okay," she said, abruptly enthusiastic. She smiled up at me.
Stephenie Meyer
#44. Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#45. But seeing his status doesn't help," Mindy said. "It's not like we can do anything about it if he falls behind. This is a pointless task."
"How long have you worked for the government?" Venkat sighed.
Andy Weir
#46. O mortals, how long will you be heavy-hearted? Life has come down to you, and are you reluctant to ascend and live? But what room is there for you to ascend, you with your high-flown ways and lofty talk? Come down, that you may ascend, ascend even to God ...
Augustine Of Hippo
#47. No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.
Mark Strand
#48. I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.
Kieran Culkin
#49. Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.
Pat Brown
#50. Sometimes I feel crazy being this dramatic about a love that only lasted a few months and..." She interrupted me. "Nothing crazy about it. You don't measure love like that. You measure it by its effects. It doesn't matter how long it lasted. It's how much it grows you that matters.
Jeff Brown
#51. I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.
Jodi Picoult
#52. The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.
Alice S. Rossi
#53. The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.
Beverly Engel
#54. In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.
Janet Scudder
#55. You must always know how long to stay; and when to go.
Patty Griffin
#56. I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged.
Alan Abel
#57. So I've been in a coma for ... how long?"
"A year and a half."
Melancholia's eyes widened. "What? A year and a half? What the hell?
Derek Landy
#58. We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.
Steve Jobs
#59. We fall into silence and I let out a defeated sigh, resting my head against the cold stone wall. Great, just great. I'm not only stuck who knows where for who knows how long, but I'm stuck here with a crazy chick who thinks she can see the future.
Brittany DeLys
#60. There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.
Janusz Kaminski
#61. I did host the Jim Rome show with Jerry Ferrara for three hours when he was on vacation. Three hours is a long time. Think about how long that is. It was tricky, but it was a great experience.
Kevin Connolly
#62. No matter how long the sun may linger on his long and weary journey, at length evening comes with its sacred song.
Brian Friel
#63. The question is, how long does Mr. Spinny have to live? And what does that tell us?
Neal Stephenson
#64. I have googled 'how long does heartbreak last?' The result more popular than that was 'how long does heartburn last?' This implies people suffer from heartburn more than they do heartbreak which is a good thing because heartbreak sucks way fucking more than acid reflux ever could.
Alexa Chung
#65. I can feel his soul through his lips. It's telling me a story of agony over how long it's waited for this moment and how it never wants it to end.
Tara Elizabeth
#66. Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#67. As expected, extreme and complete isolation was the cause of her immense strength and speed. God help us all, we will send her to the Forest to see how long she lasts, to better understand her. It is through her sacrifice that we grow stronger. It is through His glory that we survive. I
Carrie Ryan
#68. The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.
Elizabeth II
#69. Lady Miranda gracefully kicked Lady Georgina in the shin. Amelia's eyes widened. How long would it take to learn how to do such an uncouth thing with ladylike grace?
Kristi Ann Hunter
#70. In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.
Martha Gellhorn
#71. You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.
Ramona Ausubel
#72. Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.
Christopher Shays
#73. Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.
Natalie Babbitt
#74. Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's] one or two days doing the fight. Where we were spending eight days concurrently with an episode doing our fight sequences.
Alfred Gough
#75. Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?
Janet Frame
#76. Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW ... so you stop asking.
Ram Dass
#77. Contentedly adrift in the cosmos. That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while. How long did the feeling last?
Kurt Vonnegut
#78. We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
William Hazlitt
#79. Sometimes I wonder if I'm falling in love with her. Sometimes I wonder how long I can pretend I'm not.
Karina Halle
#80. Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.
Louis Bayard
#81. My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.
Richard Wright
#82. It hurts to cry," she said, her voice raspy.
"It hurts worse not to."
"Did you cry?"
"For four days straight."
"Is that how long it took you to bury them?"
"Yes, ma'am," he said in a voice that sounded like stone grating against stone.
Lorraine Heath
#83. No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you."
I managed a wavering smile, tasting blood in my mouth. "You sure about that, Dad? Because he's done everything to me.
Richelle Mead
#84. The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#86. When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
T.H. White
#87. I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.
Kent Haruf
#88. In the very few interviews I've made, it doesn't matter how long we've talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck.
PewDiePie
#89. It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?
Anne Rice
#90. How long were you standing up there spying on me?" she asked.
"You sure know how to make a man feel welcome.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#91. There's a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.
Lenny Abrahamson
#92. I didn't even want to sing, honestly. I started thinking about how long the journey was, how far all of us had come - me and Jessica Sanchez, Hollie Cavanagh and Josh Ledet and everybody. It's insane, man. It's not as easy as you think.
Phillip Phillips
#93. Hey, Jimmy."
"Yeah."
"You ever think about how long we're going to live?"
"No," he says. "Not really."
"Well, why not?"
"I dunno. Guess I'm too busy livin' it to think about it.
Ryan Winfield
#94. See how long and bold my life line is? It's an indication of my sexual prowess.
Denise Grover Swank
#95. And here it is. That horrible, beautiful, stretched out moment between stubbing your toe and feeling the hurt. How long do I have before the pain comes? How bad will it be when it does?
Joe Abercrombie
#96. How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?
Russell Brand
#98. If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.
Jamie Foxx
#99. How long have you been a Wiccan?'
'A what?'
'A pagan. A witch.'
'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'
Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?'
'Wizard has a Z'
He looked at me blankly.
'No one appreciates me.' I muttered.
Jim Butcher
#100. If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?
Jerry Stahl
