Top 100 Longest Quotes
#1. If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
Charles Caleb Colton
#2. The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.
Harry Reid
#3. As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.
Robert Jarvik
#4. Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.
Nicholas Rodger
#5. One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
Henry David Thoreau
#6. Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.
Laozi
#7. Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
Dan Buettner
#8. You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here.
Louis Oosthuizen
#9. I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever. Look t how precocious I am at 33.
Vince Spadea
#10. The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.
Christopher Poole
#12. Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
Cyril Smith
#13. The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
Dan Buettner
#14. Sometimes the shortest journeys take longest, don't they?
Sarah Waters
#15. We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
Arthur Helps
#16. The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles Handy
#17. When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.
Seth
#18. I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with the least risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Neal Barnard
#19. I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.
Bernie Sanders
#20. Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
Booth Tarkington
#21. I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#22. In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#23. 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
#24. I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.
Eric Sennevoight
#25. He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.
Neil Gaiman
#27. The longest life is no more than a sliver of light between two boundless ribbons of dark, like the light you see through the chinks of a log cabin at sunrise. And that last ribbon of dark, the one that comes after you are gone, that one goes on until the end of time.
Jack Todd
#28. Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#29. 'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job.
David Schwimmer
#30. The highest civilizations
the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms
are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.
Pearl S. Buck
#32. Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
Javier Bardem
#33. His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.
Nicholas Sparks
#34. A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
Charles Issawi
#35. If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#36. 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
#37. I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
#38. For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
Daniel Johnston
#39. Shaped like an enormous horseshoe, the Louvre was the longest building in Europe, stretching farther than three Eiffel Towers laid end to end.
Dan Brown
#40. And you, my friends! So few of you remain
That you are dearer daily. I rejoice
In you. How short the road has become,
That once appeared the longest road of all.
Anna Akhmatova
#41. For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I thing they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.
Alexandra Bracken
#42. Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
Machado De Assis
#44. Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.
Joe Abercrombie
#45. The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
Ezra Taft Benson
#46. I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.
Daniela Ruah
#47. What was your favorite day of the year? The summer solstice. June twenty-first. The longest day of the year.
Amor Towles
#48. The new is older than the old;
And newest friend is oldest friend in this:
That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss
One thing we sought.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#49. I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
Isaac
#50. Freud is all nonsense; the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see who can refuse the longest to help with the dishes.
Julian Mitchell
#51. The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."
Sam Levenson
#52. Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
John Bruton
#53. 'Newhart' ran the longest, and it was great to have a regular role, but I run into a lot of film fans, and they ask me about 'Blade Runner.' I was grateful to be a part of that.
William Sanderson
#54. For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.
Jacqueline Emerson
#55. It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the longest, most tortuous, and arousing death in the history of the world.
Cora Carmack
#56. There are two types of players: those who know and those who don't. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.
Marcus Allen
#57. I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.
Janet Weiss
#58. I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
Lord Byron
#59. So when you start getting scared, remember that the longest night is only eight hours and the longest hour is only sixty minutes. Dawn is always going to come - unless you don't want it to.
Michael Robotham
#61. None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
Dan Buettner
#62. If Miller had brought him all this way just to let him die in an abandoned train car, it was the longest prank setup in history.
James S.A. Corey
#63. The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.
Elmer Kelton
#64. As the saying goes, The longest journey that people must take is the eighteen inches between their heads and their hearts.
John E. Mackey
#65. The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#66. I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.
Paul Walker
#67. Forty-one was a very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes.
Arthur C. Clarke
#68. Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.
Ally Carter
#69. Put all these numbers together and what do they add up to? In a sentence: We are the healthiest, wealthiest, and longest-lived people in history. And we are increasingly afraid. This is one of the great paradoxes of our time.
Daniel Gardner
#70. Harrison's 8,400-word inaugural speech was the longest ever, while his 30-day Presidency was the shortest.
George Washington
#71. America is the longest argument in the world.
Bill Moyers
#72. Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.
Richard Siken
#74. The longest journey is not the journey from Asia to Antarctica, but it is the journey to know yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#75. The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
Emmuska Orczy
#77. But stories that live longest
Are sung above the glass,
And Parnell loved his country
And Parnell loved his lass.
William Butler Yeats
#78. I always watch for the longest day in the year and then I miss it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#79. Inside the myth of Australia's economic superheroes."
We're living through the second longest boom in Australian history. You can't move for talk of the budget surplus.
Andrew Charlton
#80. As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.
Emraan Hashmi
#81. Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
Walter Savage Landor
#82. I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
Robert Carlyle
#83. A marker drawn to show our end, is etched into its line.
The briefest moment shared with you - the longest on my mind.
Lang Leav
#84. It was the longest, most exquisite high of my life, but the hangover came first.
Dan Harris
#85. You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.
Diane Setterfield
#86. He has depths of silence - which he breaks only at the longest intervals by a remark. And when the remark comes it's always something he has seen or felt for himself - never a bit banal. That would be what one might have feared and what would kill me. But never. She
Henry James
#87. i never knew anyone so relentless to his ancestors - you make up for your soapiness toward the living
E. M. Forster
#88. The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
James Mercer
#90. Daisies in water are the longest lasting
flower you can give to someone.
Fact.
Buy daisies.
Not roses.
Anne Sexton
#91. As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
Samuel Johnson
#92. For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.
Mark Ruffalo
#93. Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.
Seneca.
#94. I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.
Taylor Swift
#95. I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.
Christian Bale
#96. For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
Heidi Klum
#97. Sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home.
Ryan Holiday
#98. I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.
Damon Albarn
#99. The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches.
Victor Hugo
#100. When he visited the stables he found Spit also had a welcome waiting. It lasted a full two minutes and Master Rensial stated confidently it was the longest fart he had ever heard a horse produce.
Anthony Ryan
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