Top 100 Long Enough Quotes
#1. I've been going long enough to prove what I wanted to prove, to get the girl I wanted to get, to make the money I wanted to make, to drink all the beer I wanted to drink. I've played - not exactly everywhere, but I've played enough places.
Joe Perry
#2. If you hold your breath long enough, you're dead. If you give up and start breathing, you're mad. Isn't that so, Alice from Wonderland?
Cameron Jace
#3. You gotta fish or cut bait,man.This has gone on long enough. You're playing with fire, every damn time you walk in this bar.
Karen Rose
#4. A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.
Paul Butterfield
#5. The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ...
Jose Saramago
#6. ...he told a story about the days when he was a reporter himself and how he had gotten so close to story that he finally couldn't write it...When I stared at something long enough, the lines blurred and I could no longer see it for what it was. One thing became another.
Pete Dexter
#7. I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.
Patti Smith
#8. I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.
Arca
#9. All the studies show that the best age to die is eighty. It's long enough that we can have a complete life experience, but not so long that we feel useless.
Ally Condie
#10. In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#11. I could kiss you until the world stopped turning and it still wouldn't be long enough.
Toni Anderson
#12. I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.
Mila Kunis
#13. Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Jim Rohn
#14. Your poor lungs." "We're not gonna live long enough to get cancer. The Bible says there's just seven years of Tribulation after the Rapture.
Tom Perrotta
#15. He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn't change on him.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.
Nick Hornby
#17. I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.
Bruce Dern
#18. If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, 'more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. 'It's all in the mind.
Jeanette Winterson
#19. That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
Alan Vega
#20. 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
#21. There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.
Ronald Firbank
#22. One day [Kahn] walked into a classroom and began a lecture with the words: "Light ... is." There followed a pause that seemed seven days long, just long enough to re-create the world.
Tom Wolfe
#23. For a minute, I could pretend that I meant everything to her, because she was certainly starting to mean everything to me. And if you pretend something long enough, it eventually becomes
real. Right?
S.C. Stephens
#24. Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat ... If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started from. That is when you have lived a full life. That is the artist's path.
Nikki Sixx
#25. I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.
Wendy Mass
#27. The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
Ben Harper
#28. Life isn't long enough (anymore) to read what I don't enjoy.
Vera Mont
#29. It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
Ben Aaronovitch
#30. I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.
Michael Reagan
#31. Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.
Peter Lynch
#32. That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
Jane Austen
#33. If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.
Art Alexakis
#34. Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
#35. Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert
#36. I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
William Shakespeare
#37. I imagine we're safe, happy, and truly in love. And I imagine that I can tell her without shame and stigma attached to my words. I imagine it because I don't know if I'll survive long enough to be able to live it.
Lynnette Brisia
#38. for you to drive off the bridge, but not long enough
S.G. Lents
#39. If we can ignore an issue long enough and distance ourselves from it far enough, we can actually make it look as if it belongs to someone else altogether.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
Joseph Wood Krutch
#41. The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Major Taylor
#42. Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.
Mary Renault
#43. Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.
Ray Bradbury
#44. If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
Mason Cooley
#45. Every one of our sons leaves home at some point. They become men who can return to help us mothers in ways that no other human can. They can teach us how to live our lives better. If we hold on long enough, and love them always, they come back to us.
Meg Meeker Md
#46. I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost.
Joe Manganiello
#47. Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
Alan Ball
#48. When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.
Nora Roberts
#49. Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
William Faulkner
#50. Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?
Adrian McKinty
#51. Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
Gertrude Atherton
#52. Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
Charles Caleb Colton
#53. So I had a choice: I could either not do anything for the rest of my life, or I could suck it up and act like it didn't bother me And you know what? If you pretend long enough that it doesn't bother you, pretty soon it actually doesn't.
Mindy McGinnis
#54. The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
D. A. Carson
#55. Anything can become music if listened to long enough
Jeff Noon
#56. Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem.
Albert Einstein
#57. He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.
Franz Kafka
#58. Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.
Winkie Pratney
#59. I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.
Anna Quindlen
#60. I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.
George McGovern
#61. Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.
Mark Wahlberg
#62. I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.
Bruce Lansky
#63. I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
Horton Foote
#64. The doors of opportunity don't stay open long enough for us to ignore them today and return tomorrow. They shut for reasons we never imagined." Ray White
Ray White
#65. It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
George Eliot
#66. We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#67. I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.
Ellis Peters
#68. Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.
Ruben Papian
#69. I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without ... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
Socrates
#70. I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
William Faulkner
#71. I'm just waiting for the one that makes me feel like forever wouldn't be long enough.
Carian Cole
#72. My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
Kate Christensen
#73. Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough ... maybe something good finally happens.
Rick Remender
#74. Hide long enough from your fear, Mother said, and you too disappear.
Philip Schultz
#75. If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.
Jim Rohn
#76. Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
Claude Bernard
#77. When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.
Lionel Shriver
#78. People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.
Neil Gaiman
#79. Thanks," I say, stepping into the room.
Do brothers thank each other?
Probably not.
I should have said something along the lines of, "Took you long enough, asshole."
Hoover, Colleen; Fisher, Tarryn (2015-01-07). Never Never (p. 75). Hoover Ink. Kindle Edition.
Tarryn Fisher
#80. With this in mind, it is not inconceivable to say that there are people alive today who will live long enough to see their selves stored in silicon and thus, by extension, see themselves live forever.
Steven Kotler
#81. I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
#82. A long silence descended. Long enough to walk to the end of a long, narrow room, look up something in a dictionary, and walk back.
Haruki Murakami
#83. I don't think George Bush is a good president by any imagination, but when he said, 'If you're talking to Al-Quaeda, we want to know what it's about,' it just proves one thing: If you're president long enough, you will one day say something that is true.
Bill Maher
#84. Football is not played with strong arms and fast feet, it's played with heart. Grow your heart and your arms and feet will follow ... You play long enough and you might find yourself in a place where your arms and feet fail you ... That's when you find out what's in your heart.
Charles Martin
#85. You don't have to chase around after creatures, Pismire had said. You watch them for long enough, and then you'll find the place to wait and they'll come to you. There's nearly always a better way of doing something.
Terry Pratchett
#86. The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. I read people.
James A. Newman
#87. The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.
Seth Klarman
#88. I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.
Judy LaMarsh
#89. If Ginger could just be a good enough person for long enough, she could flip the script for Willa, though.
Tessa Bailey
#91. Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
Jack Bruce
#92. Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.
Dave Eggers
#93. Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.
Dave Morin
#94. Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.
Roger Altman
#95. If you live long enough, Bill - it's a world of epilogues, Richard Abbott said.
John Irving
#96. Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?"
She taps the side of her head.
"Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
Jojo Moyes
#97. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Groucho Marx
#98. Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Tony Robbins
#99. He lived long enough to give the chaplain his name - John Goetchius - but died before he could tell the kind man where his home was.
Katherine Paterson
#100. I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
Ralph Stanley
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