Top 100 Longer Than Quotes
#1. It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should
a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.
Paula McLain
#2. NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.
Conan O'Brien
#3. Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.
Michael Wilbon
#4. It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.
Tom Perrotta
#5. Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have existed. The Army has done so because of its unique character- a uniqueness based primarily upon intangibles that cannot be costed.
William A. Connelly
#6. I want to be able to pick up a list of names of graduates from high schools and colleges in the city and to see that that list is longer than it was when I started in 2009.
Julian Castro
#7. The gift of faith given to your children will last longer than any monetary gift.
Eve M. Harrell
#8. I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory
Sam Savage
#9. Rachel scowled. "You've known Mrak longer than anyone alive. You know what I know - the things he's done, the things he hides from everyone else."
The Curator's smile did not wane as he shrugged. "Indeed I do. But judge-jury-executioner is not my calling. I'm just the gatekeeper.
S.G. Night
#10. We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
Wislawa Szymborska
#11. No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.
Robert Zuppke
#12. The only thing that can last longer than the scars we all carry, is the love that makes it bearable. Beautiful and broken, we are beloved.
Perci T. Brooks
#13. Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!
Andy Roddick
#14. In this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age
Julian Barnes
#15. But I was also very pleased when I heard the Prince of Montenegro got married the other day. I know perfectly well that I am nothing to anyone. But the middle finger is no longer than the pinkie if one measures both against infinity ...
Halldor Laxness
#16. Call me old-fashioned, but I did read in Glamour that one's shorts should always be longer than one's vagina.
Helen Fielding
#17. I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.
Warren Zevon
#19. The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
R. K. Milholland
#20. Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.
Peter Joseph
#21. For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.
Aristotle.
#22. Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.
Seth
#23. Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
Christopher Morley
#24. I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.
Donald Rumsfeld
#25. The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. "The truth" outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.
Max Stirner
#26. Then he pulled Liam forward and pressed their lips together. The kiss was no longer than a second, but in that second, any walls between them fell. Liam's body was Syd's body; Syd's mind was Liam's mind. someones eyelashes tickled and they drew apart
Alex London
#27. Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success
Ray Bergman
#28. Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things - elves and fairies - and now we don't. Now we see them, right?
Thomm Quackenbush
#29. There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA.
Sue Wicks
#30. You are ... Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. -Bella
Stephenie Meyer
#31. No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration."
I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.
Kevin Hearne
#32. Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
Jack Kerouac
#33. The skinny ones last longer than the fat ones," Louisa said. "You'll probably last till you're about sixty.
Larry McMurtry
#34. Getting my legal situation fixed takes a bit longer than we all thought: twelve years to be exact. Not a big deal. Only most of my life.
Patricio Maya
#35. I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
inside me
for longer than you know;
I do not know
what they are
or why they are there,
I only know
that they feel
manageable,
defeatable,
when I
am around
You.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#36. I have been a Ron Paul 'R3VOLutionary' longer than most 'R3VOLutionaries' have been alive!
Scott Boman
#37. The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.
Paulo Coelho
#38. One colleague who's been in the industry longer than I had been gave me a valuable piece of advice. "Stay close to the facts and observe things fully and report. Then you can be a mediocre journalist." I held onto his words when I worked and I've been following that advice for 16 years.
Hark-Joon Lee
#39. Finding my dog's g spot is taking way longer than I would care to admit.
Daniel Tosh
#40. There is nothing we can do longer than think, no activity to which we can devote ourselves more regularly nor more easily:
Michel De Montaigne
#42. One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#43. Even a person like this makes mistakes, can't always hold on to everything they'd like to,can't always force the world to spin in the direction of their choosing. You'll hug him longer than necessary and tell him to keep in touch. And you'll know, finally, that it had nothing to do with you.
Sloane Crosley
#44. When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#45. SIN WILL TAKE YOU FARTHER THAN YOU WANT TO GO, KEEP YOU LONGER THAN YOU WANT TO STAY AND COST YOU MORE THAN YOU WANT TO PAY.
Kimberly Jones-Pothier
#46. More than a fifth of internet users will abandon an online video if it takes longer than five seconds to load.
Anonymous
#47. In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists at all in the real world; it is all out on the trail somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there.
John L. Parker Jr.
#48. When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.
Jonah Lomu
#49. Friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.
John Irving
#50. My 'third leg' is longer than my two other legs and that's why I wear such big baggy pants.
Tom Kaulitz
#51. Everything in life is harder than you think and everything in life takes longer than you think.
Evelyn Marshall
#52. It's too hard, speaking to aliens. They don't think like you do, and you don't know what you're doing wrong."
"I wonder," the Master of Fandom said with artificial lightness, "if they'll call it 'xenofatigue' and forbid anyone to talk to an alien for longer than five minutes.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#53. I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.
Hugh Jackman
#55. Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.
Cassandra Clare
#56. One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Quentin Crisp
#57. When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.
Marcus Aurelius
#58. A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O'Malley
#59. Feels like I've known him since before he got to the world - longer than he knew himself, truthfully. Seems like we'd been friends really ... Somewhere before life on earth ...
Jacqueline Woodson
#60. My spirit has been around far longer than my soul
I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.
Terry A. O'Neal
#61. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#62. When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
Marcus Aurelius
#63. Am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#64. I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.
David Bergen
#65. I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
Jack O'Connell
#67. That smoke you smell is me frying your brains every time we kiss longer than twenty-three seconds.
Cherie Colyer
#68. I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.
George Clooney
#69. One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
Manny Farber
#70. We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.
Arkady Volozh
#71. There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.
Sue Grafton
#72. Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
Charles Dickens
#73. Inner beauty lasts longer than the more obvious seductions, so throw away the miniskirt and thigh-length boots.
Ulysses Brave
#74. Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
Jean De La Bruyere
#75. Sorry. I had an execution that ran over." Corbin frowned. "You come from executing one of my kind and act like it means nothing? Tell me, Addison, how would you feel if I said something like that to you? 'Sorry I couldn't be on time, I was draining some human dry and it took longer than I thought.
Evangeline Anderson
#76. Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend
Cormac McCarthy
#77. He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love.
P.D. James
#78. Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.
Zachary Cole Smith
#79. Maddox is his polar opposite. He has just as many muscles, but on him they look huge and imposing. His brown hair is longer than Zeke's, sporting that messy look like he was running his hands through it all day - sex hair.
Brooke Cumberland
#80. I feel like I should be going with her," said Kinney. Snarling, Iko stepped over the fallen guard and jabbed a finger at his chest. "I have known her a lot longer than you have, mister, and if there's one of us who should be going with her, it's me. Now open these doors." One
Marissa Meyer
#81. There are many evil and unfriendly things in the world that have little love for those that go on two legs, and yet are not in league with Sauron, but have purposes of their own. Some have been in this world longer than he.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#82. A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,
Jan Gehl
#83. Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty.
Iris Apfel
#84. Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Evan Bayh
#85. As if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.
Angela Carter
#86. If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
Alan Ball
#87. If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.
Lisa Snowdon
#88. It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.
Barbara Fredrickson
#89. Give me knowledge of my end and the measure of my days, so I may know my fraility. My lifetime is no longer than the width of my hand. It is only a moment, compared to yours.
Deborah Harkness
#90. That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Lysander Spooner
#91. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.
Nick Hornby
#92. We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence equals the amount of time it takes a warm breeze to blow through your hair on a spring day.
Paul S. Anderson
#93. Every flutter in her chest when he sat beside her, every flush to her cheeks after a compliment, and every longer-than-average embrace would end tonight.
Katherine McIntyre
#94. Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
Alain De Botton
#95. His eyes say quite plainly that he once trusted someone, that he has been repenting it for longer than you or I have been alive, and that he will never take the chance again.
Gene Wolfe
#96. When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.
Marcus Aurelius
#97. There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.
Jean De La Bruyere
#98. It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.
Steve Nash
#99. That day was turning out to be longer than The Brothers Karamazov.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#100. Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
Lauren Oliver
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