Long Tenure Quotes

#1. In my defense I have
only silence, dew on the grass, a nightingale
among the branches. You forgive it,
its long tenure in the leaves of one aspen
after another, drops of eternity, grams
of amazement, and the sleepy complaints of the poor poets

Adam Zagajewski

#2. These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

Andrew Bogut

#3. Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.

Louis Menand

#5. The best compromise between love and good sense is both to feel longing and to conquer it.

Seneca.

#6. It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

Tupac Shakur

#7. My heart is breaking for a little love

Christina Rossetti

#8. After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades.

Joan Larkin

#9. The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

Douglas MacArthur

#10. My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon.

Craig Bruce

#11. It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Aristotle.

#12. You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.

John Calvin

#13. When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Andre Gide

#14. She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I could back down now.

Jenna-Lynne Duncan

#15. It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.

Kim Weston

#16. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Helen Keller

#17. Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.

Elizabeth Hay