Top 100 Long Quotes
#1. When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.
Alex Steffen
#2. A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.
George Schaller
#3. The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.
Vivek Wadhwa
#4. If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you'll have a wonderful time doing it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#5. If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.
George H. Morris
#6. I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.
Candace Bushnell
#7. I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.
Jane Goodall
#9. Business schools have always had a complicated relationship to science, and have a long tradition of repackaging ideology as academic studies.
Carl Cederstrom
#11. I can really say that I'm a pretty good receiver and came a long way.
Hines Ward
#12. It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#13. There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.
Patricia A. McKillip
#14. She says, trying uselessly to console me: 'What are you so long for in your face? Everybody forgets some small things, all the time!'
But if small things go, will large things be close behind?
Salman Rushdie
#15. I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
Karl Marlantes
#16. It is an easy matter, Olav, to be a good Christian so long as God asks no more of you than to hear sweet singing in church, and to yield Him obedience while He caresses you with the hand of a father. But a man's faith is put to the test on the day God's will is not his.
Sigrid Undset
#17. As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.
Stephen Kinzer
#18. Uh, sure, if it doesn't take too long. I'm supposed to be at a big police banquet in about thirty seconds. They'll probably send a car by for me if I'm late.
Tim Tharp
#19. For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
Ibrahim Babangida
#20. The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.
Samuel Reshevsky
#21. Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.
Tove Ditlevsen
#22. It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
Tess Gerritsen
#23. Oh, Mr. Trout," nice Milo went on, there in Trout's suite, "teach us to sing and dance and laugh and cry. We've tried to survive so long on money and sex and envy and real estate and football and basketball and automobiles and television and alcohol - on sawdust and broken glass!
Anonymous
#24. The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.
Myles Munroe
#25. It's a long way to the top, If you wanna rock n' roll
AC/DC
#26. Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.
Arturo Graf
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.
Hillary Clinton
#30. The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.
Charles Reznikoff
#31. Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.
Neil Gaiman
#32. most breakthrough products result from a long cycle of hit-and-miss prototypes, the steady accumulation of features, and a timely synthesis of existing technologies.
Brent Schlender
#33. As long as we do not recognize the individual within our societies, we will not be able to live with humanity outside of our faith. In
Omar Saif Ghobash
#34. Good choice, Polly," she soothes, caressing my long, dark hair.
"You may not have been fucked by a woman before but, if you're a good girl now, then you soon will be ...
Felicity Brandon
#35. You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.
Cassandra Clare
#36. As long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.
Ruth Draper
#37. The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.
Gary Cole
#38. 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
#40. I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.
Summer Glau
#41. Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.
Mike Bond
#42. She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.
Elizabeth Scott
#43. She wore a simple purple long-sleeved turtleneck, but streaks of white across her chest - flour perhaps? - distracted him, made him want to volunteer for cleanup duty.
Melissa McClone
#44. We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.
Ivy Baker Priest
#45. When I was younger, I loved math. Everything about math. But in school, math now has letters. Like what does x equal? There are also long stories with characters, and although the story is supposed to end with some number, all the words block my path to getting there.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#46. I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.
Leland Gregory
#47. The past became a long, razor-sharp skewer that stabbed right through his heart.
Haruki Murakami
#48. And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#49. The sun only moves about 1 degree every four minutes and that is usually long enough to bring your tinder up to ignition temperature.
David Aman
#50. I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.
Michelle Branch
#51. American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#52. As long as we have breath we can hope, can't we?
Lynn Austin
#53. I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan
#54. I could look at the sky forever. There's always something to look at, to notice. You're reminded that nothing stops, not even when it feels like everything else in your life has ground to a halt. Our world will keep turning, revolving, long after we're gone.
Andrew Auseon
#55. As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.
David Horsey
#56. Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale,
Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail,
To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours,
Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
Samuel Rogers
#57. Even while I resisted, and long before I surrendered, God was working in my life - guiding me, protecting me, and training me.
Tammy L. Gray
#58. Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.
Matthew Specktor
#59. Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
Archie Shepp
#60. As long as you stay cool, nothing can defeat you
Nash
#61. Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember.
Nancy A. Dafoe
#62. So long as we understand each other, Grif; you wanna suck me, and I like blow jobs...nothing more to it than that.
Joseph Lance Tonlet
#63. We human beings love trying to solve things. As long as they're not our things.
Steve Chandler
#65. The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence.
Khaleda Zia
#66. The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.
Richard Sharp
#67. As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.
Rod Serling
#68. We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.
Freeman Dyson
#69. Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.
Jonathan Richman
#70. He almost didn't want to start. He'd been fantasizing about this for so long. What if it was a disappointment? What if he couldn't make her come? In his fantasies, she'd come for him hard and frequently, usually screaming his name.
Nina Croft
#71. I regard one's hair as I regard husbands: as long as one is seen together in public one's private divergences don't matter.
Saki
#72. He's not anybody's clone. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. As long as he continues to remind himself of that, he's going to be a very good player.
Chili Davis
#73. Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
Blaise Pascal
#74. This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.
Eric Burdon
#75. That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#76. A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.
Walter Hadwen
#78. I never think about my own stats, as long as I'm contributing to the team.
Derek Jeter
#79. That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#80. 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
#81. I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#82. When one has no fear of insults, no one will insult him; that is the rule. The 'transactions' will continue as long as there is fear. The moment fear is gone, the transactions will end.
Dada Bhagwan
#83. As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him.
Catherine Parr
#84. A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.
Elvis Presley
#85. I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.
Gisele Bundchen
#86. As a police officer it has been my experience that pedophiles are able to operate and stay functional over long periods of time and victimize scores, even hundreds, of children, because no one wants to believe his or her own intuitions about the symptoms in the perpetrator.
James Lee Burke
#87. If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.
Terry H. Anderson
#88. You know what they say; all good things come to those who wait." "Never is a very long time to wait." He chuckled. "There's a lot to be said for delayed gratification, you know. Given half a chance, I'd delay yours for a very long time - hours maybe." "That's
Victoria Vane
#89. Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
#90. To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.
Ernest Hemingway,
#91. Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long."
"I only have to be faster than you.
Stephenie Meyer
#92. Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.
Kamala Markandaya
#93. After all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.
Nevil Shute
#94. We've all experienced pondering a problem all day long only to find we receive the solution when forgetting about the problem and thinking of something else. When we stop concentrating so hard, we allow our subconscious to flourish, and those who do this more than others are often called geniuses.
James Morcan
#95. The Book Charm
Your Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared
Viola Shipman
#96. 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
#97. The FBI continues to be a broken, anachronistic organization, but state and local law enforcement officials are much more attuned to the kind of threat we're facing. I think that's very hopeful, but it's a long-term process.
Michael Scheuer
#98. Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started with in the original superior group - in other words, mongrelized.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#100. If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.
Felix Dennis
