Top 100 Last Long Quotes
#1. and after she went, Dalton didn't last long. His death certificate listed heart failure as the cause, but Owen Gray knew it had been loneliness and grief. After
James Thayer
#2. No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
Vance Havner
#3. Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
Gautama Buddha
#4. Clear synapses are like driving in Ireland. You hit a straight-away
and you gun it, cos you know it's not going to last long.
S. Kelley Harrell
#5. I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.
Graham Norton
#6. In our lives, when we do not create something out of total honesty, it cannot last long.
Henry Chang
#7. Songs remain. They last ... A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.
Neil Gaiman
#8. For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
William Shakespeare
#9. In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
Archie Shepp
#10. I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut.
Marya Hornbacher
#11. True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#12. I hate you," Andrew said casually. He took a last long drag from his cigarette and flicked it off the roof. "You were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs."
"I'm not a hallucination," Neil said, nonplussed.
"You are a pipe dream," Andrew said.
Nora Sakavic
#13. Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.
Edith Hamilton
#14. I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
Ikue Mori
#15. Franklin may ... be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.
Samuel Eliot Morison
#16. People instinctively let down their guard when they saw a limp, an illness, a flaw in someone else. Not out of compassion but because it made them feel superior. Stronger. Those people, Gamache knew, did not always last long. It was not a useful instinct.
Louise Penny
#17. Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Oscar Wilde
#18. I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
Imelda May
#19. If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.
H.G.Wells
#20. Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.
Arlen Specter
#21. When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.
Chin-Ning Chu
#22. If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.
Simon Fuller
#23. People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last long in the study.
Frederick Lenz
#24. Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.
Peter Drucker
#25. Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity
Neal Shusterman
#26. It just has to last long enough for me to get to safety. And where will that "safety" be? Not a damn clue.
Andy Weir
#27. All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love
I scarcely dare say it
but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long?
Thornton Wilder
#28. Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
#29. When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.
Anna Netrebko
#30. I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#31. There is a brief moment when you first wake where you have no memories. An idyllic blank slate. A blissful emptiness. But it doesn't last long. You remember exactly who you are and all the terrible things you've gone through.
J.L. Weil
#32. Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.
John Waters
#34. A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
Will Rogers
#35. The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.
Hannah More
#36. Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.
E. Jean Carroll
#37. What comes easy wont last long, and what lasts long won't come easy.
Anonymous
#38. I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening ... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
Jack Germond
#39. My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.
Wladimir Klitschko
#40. So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,- The after-echo of departed years,- And touches all the soul to tears.
Henry Van Dyke
#41. If you believe that success is only connected to money, you will not last long.
John Patrick Hickey
#42. She let herself love me for three minutes.
Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer.
Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.
Markus Zusak
#43. Her soul is clear of any red seals, but that won't last long, ' cause Papa's come to play.
Victoria Scott
#44. Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.
Chris Penn
#45. You can be in love with solitude; it won't last long! You can be in love with crowds; it won't last long!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
Jane Smiley
#47. Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous.
Margaret Atwood
#48. I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
Shelley Winters
#49. Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.
Andre Agassi
#50. You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
Ajay Devgan
#51. A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.
Jodi Picoult
#52. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
Robert Towne
#53. I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
Mary Wesley
#54. Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughing-stock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams are gone. That's the power of songs.
Neil Gaiman
#55. You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn't last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind."
That's how it is with dreams," said Priscilla. "They're the perfect crime.
Tom Robbins
#56. If you're going to give up so quickly, I don't think you'll last long but you should try telling yourself you won't ever give up. Nobody can say how this will turn out but you should try the hardest you've ever tried in your life so you'll have no regrets
Hitori Nakano
#57. If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.
Ernest King
#58. Of course, if there should be war, it wouldn't last long - not in the twentieth century; and no one wants it. There would be, perhaps, a few skirmishes on the frontiers, and then everything would be arranged diplomatically.
Marie Van Vorst
#59. The only good thing about being really really old is ..
it doesn't last long.
Lou Silluzio
#61. The things that really shake the human soul aren't beauty or kindness. Although such things are certainly moving, but those feelings don't last long. But ... anger or sadness are different. They leave an undelible mark. Even after the wound heals ... you can never forget the pain completely.
Fuyumi Soryo
#62. A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.
James Salter
#63. There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.
Dan Hicks
#64. Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life
James De Mille
#65. Prosperity last long for one who acts after proper consideration.
Chanakya
#66. Can you carry me to bed? Can you last long enough to make me come? Those are the important things. Get me to bed, get me off. If you can manage those things, I'll be impressed.
Jasinda Wilder
#67. Juliana was momentarily at a loss for words, a strange condition for her. It didn't last long.
Cindy Anstey
#68. Scaling needs to be a core part of your foundation. Competition is much more intense and competitive advantages don't last long, so you have to have a "grow big fast" strategy.
Eric Schmidt
#69. Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution ... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.
John Caudwell
#70. -she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
Larry McMurtry
#71. That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.
Ovid
#72. I was simply in love with my daughter and how she viewed her world. The literal way in which she took it all in and took it on. I knew it wouldn't last long and so I treasured every moment I saw and heard of it.
Michael Connelly
#73. I have to physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't last long enough.
Courteney Cox
#74. A relationship with lots of pain, it's not a relationship that will last long.
Jang In-hwan
#75. I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.
Jeanne Moreau
#76. For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.
Joseph Conrad
#77. An over sharpened sword cannot last long.
Lao-Tzu
#78. Shaun's eyes widened, and for a minute, he was speechless. It was a nice minute. When his mouth wasn't messing things up, he was serious eye candy. Unfortunately, it didn't last long.
Jus Accardo
#79. I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#80. It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.
James Jones
#81. V's smile didn't last long. "Don't get your romantic side fired up about me and Jane, buddy.
She's human."
Butch's jaw dropped and he pulled a bobble. "No, really? That's such a shocker! And here I thought she
was a sheep."
V shot Butch a fuck-ya stare.
J.R. Ward
#82. Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.
Jack McDevitt
#83. The blade gleamed in his hand, making my knees go so weak that I had to hold onto the car. Even watching him use a butter knife on an unsuspecting piece of toast was enough to make my whole body burn, inciting an erection under the table that would last long past dessert.
Nicole Castle
#84. Good times don't last long sometimes.
Levon Helm
#85. No matter how soft you try to grow it, if the soil is full of stones it won't flourish. It would rather grow in ugly patches, here and there, making a mockery of your gardening effort. Better remove the stones first; the spring is not going to last long. Next would be next year; who lives till then?
Ashfaq Saraf
#86. What I would suggest to the young people is to not forget this and don't try to get assimilated into today's Hollywood style of movies because I don't think it's going to last long.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#87. You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long.
Chuck Liddell
#88. The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
Jerry Spinelli
#89. My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
Dave Grohl
#90. If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.
Spike Lee
#92. But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.
Jane Austen
#93. Oh, for the love of God, Ella. You're going to make me come right now." I grunted, trying to steel myself and last a little longer. I could feel my own tension building and knew I wouldn't last long. "Screw it," I said. "I'll just fuck you again later." - Jonathan di Luca
R. Matthews
#94. Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
Frederic Chopin
#95. He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.
Colleen Coble
#96. If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long.
Terrence Howard
#97. History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
Christopher Bond
#99. You don't last long in this line of work if you feel more than others. Only the strong and the armored survive. You need an extra layer of skin, of Teflon, of Kevlar.
Karina Halle
#100. Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
Chief Joseph
