Top 100 Long Enough Quotes
#1. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Matthew McConaughey
#2. The coat-check line is long enough to fall in love with the person behind you.
Simon Van Booy
#3. Ambrose managed to fight his way free long enough to shout, Am I the only ghost here doesn't know how to ghost?
Abigail Roux
#4. Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#5. I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
Constance Baker Motley
#6. There's nothing I can do that's going to drive you away, is there?" I murmured.
Owen flashed me a sly grin. "Finally figuring that out, are you?
I nodded.
His grin deepened. "Well, it sure took you long enough.
Jennifer Estep
#7. I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready.
Nas
#8. Dream long enough and dream hard enough
you will come to know
dreaming can make it so ...
William S. Burroughs
#9. Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.
John D. MacDonald
#10. Carrying lockpicks was one bad sign. On the other hand, Owl was taking long enough getting the lock open she almost counted as honest.
"I'm not going to offer to do that," he said. "It'd just annoy you."
"If you do not wish to annoy me, be silent. I'm trying to be quiet about this.
Joanna Bourne
#11. You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.
Brian Tracy
#12. She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses.
Ilona Andrews
#13. If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
Tom Petty
#14. The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
Kirk Douglas
#15. As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough
Laini Taylor
#16. At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.
Bill Bailey
#17. But then he'd lived long enough to expect the futility of ever expecting anything at all
Laura Barnett
#18. Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
Barry Manilow
#19. It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story
one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.
Brandon Sanderson
#20. What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.
John C. Maxwell
#21. If you leave me in a room long enough, I'll redecorate the room.
Nikki Sixx
#22. Maybe it's better to end things this way. Better to have a tragic and sudden end than to have a long, drawn-out one where we realize that we're just too different, and that love alone is not enough to bind us. I think all these things. I believe none of them.
Nicola Yoon
#23. I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
Harriet Walter
#24. The day before you died was the longest, slowest day ever. It gave you more time than you could possibly want to contemplate all the things you'd got wrong, the chances you'd missed, the errors you'd made. It was long enough to convince the most hopeful person that there was no point in anything.
Juliet Marillier
#25. When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be found
in the sky if you look long and hard enough.
Susan Abulhawa
#27. One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.
Mitch Harper
#28. I breathed in the heat that spiraled around him. He gave me every ounce of attention he had to offer, focused like a leopard focusing on his prey, just long enough to cause a warmth to crack open and spill into my chest. Over my stomach. Between my legs.
Darynda Jones
#29. When one lives in the midst of a lie long enough, it becomes a part of you whether you want to rationally accept it or not.
Leanne Payne
#30. As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.
-Captain Tagon
Howard Tayler
#31. I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#32. I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
Helen Keller
#33. Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy.
Daria Snadowsky
#34. Hale looked at Macey, who added, "Seven minutes since shots fired."
"Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?"
"Not long enough if they want a clean exit," she told him.
Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.
Ally Carter
#35. Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.
L.M. Montgomery
#36. There are few problems that won't go away if you ignore them long enough.
Mark Lawrence
#37. Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)
Keith Ablow
#38. But few students practice these strategies, and those who do will need more than encouragement if they are to practice them effectively: It turns out that even when students understand that retrieval practice is a superior strategy, they often fail to persist long enough to get the lasting benefit.
Peter C. Brown
#39. I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.
Martha Gellhorn
#40. When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?
Billy Crystal
#41. All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. Look, being a lame flunky for a batshit crazy person isn't all that bad. Stay alive long enough and you may sneak your way to Washington!
Martin Van Buren
#42. Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
Larry McMurtry
#43. Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#44. We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#46. With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it.
Earl Nightingale
#47. If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
Lewis Carroll
#48. This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.
Dennis Lehane
#49. A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.
Richard M. Kovacevich
#50. No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.
Richard Paul Evans
#51. When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.
Richie Benaud
#52. I was one in a million. I wasn't bright enough to realize the circus fat lady is, too
Stephen King
#53. You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.
Jim Cramer
#54. Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.
Keith Sweat
#55. As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
G.K. Chesterton
#56. I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick with it long enough. Either way, imagine what you might be able to learn in the process - about the work, and yes, of yourself too.
Chris Hill
#57. Georgie never thought she'd be old enough to talk about life in big decade-long chunks like this.
Rainbow Rowell
#58. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
Ernest Borgnine
#59. Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
Patti Smith
#60. Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it
Bernard Evslin
#61. My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.
James Frey
#62. But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
Salman Rushdie
#63. The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.
Joseph J. Romm
#64. I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
Virgil Thomson
#65. Well, he thought, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States, and on that useless profundity, Milligan himself pedalled on, himself, himself.
Spike Milligan
#66. There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.
Etgar Keret
#67. I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's ... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.
Susan Sullivan
#68. In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline.
Tom Hiddleston
#69. They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.
Maggie Stiefvater
#70. I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can't listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own agenda long enough to stop and listen.
Irene Tomkinson
#71. You lie long enough and you start to get used to it.
Pittacus Lore
#72. If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal.
Terry Pratchett
#73. The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.
Brian Weiss
#74. It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
William Faulkner
#75. I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
Mae Whitman
#76. The man stood back, not sure what to think. That was my secret weapon. Confuse 'em and keep 'em guessing long enough to run away. I
Darynda Jones
#77. Magnus wants to shout at me, don't you, Magnus?" (Jace)
"Yes," Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl.
-pg.275-
Cassandra Clare
#78. Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
Earl Wilson
#79. The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#80. Apparently long hair was enough to make you a faggot in Chicago in '68.
Paul Monette
#81. I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.
Steve Martin
#82. I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.
Iggy Pop
#83. Time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough
E. E. Cummings
#84. Every life holds the promise of rain. But after the rain comes the rainbow. You just have to stick around long enough to find it.
Karen White
#85. Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.
Angie Thomas
#86. Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.
Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
#87. Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.
Sarah Dessen
#88. The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence are usually more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.
David McCullough
#89. If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Arthur Bloch
#90. Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!
Tasha Tudor
#91. If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.
Linda Perhacs
#93. Courage changes things for the better ... [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
Earl Nightingale
#94. She was here, and she was stronger than this, harder than this. They could make her hate herself, make her doubt herself, but they couldn't take away her deepest instinct. Not just the need to survive, but the need to survive long enough and strong enough to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Stacia Kane
#95. Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.
Fanny Fern
#96. If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
Carol Bartz
#97. Lewis once said, 'You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.' I'd have to agree. Wouldn't you?
Diane Moody
#98. People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
Kenneth Clark
#99. In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
Tahir Shah
#100. Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway,
