Longest Quotes

#1. In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

Mary Garden

#2. Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

Andy Roddick

#3. I think it was C.S. Lewis that asked, 'Do not most people simply drift away?'. I've always been a reader and for the longest time that stuck with me because I was at war with it. How can people 'simply' drift away?

Benjamin Brindise

#4. When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.

Jascha Heifetz

#5. It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much energy as one pushes them through their lives.

Larry McMurtry

#6. Because regret is the longest lived emotion.

Tamara Follett

#7. The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

Edward Abbey

#8. The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.

Seann William Scott

#9. Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest

William Shakespeare

#10. Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

Jean De La Bruyere

#11. 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

#12. No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

Scott Berkun

#13. We have been going over the proposal and possible concessions for the longest ninety minutes of my life. And I saw Battlefield Earth.

Qwen Salsbury

#14. Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.

J.D. Robb

#15. Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone.

Jane Austen

#17. In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt.

Tom Hodgkinson

#18. I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

Chad Lindberg

#19. Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

Bill Pascrell

#20. Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.

Karen Marie Moning

#21. To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.

Jennifer Hudson

#22. The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

Gifford Pinchot

#23. The morning news hour ends with Evelyna Salsdottir, the champion poet of New Asgard, reciting her award-winning song "Sunfall in Mesa Verde." It's about vanishing people, and the memories they leave behind, like the longest shadows cast as the sun sets.

Tessa Gratton

#24. I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

Samuel Johnson

#25. We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.

Elizabeth Berg

#26. I've been waiting to have facial hair on camera for the longest time - I'm always playing teenagers, and I always have to shave. I'll let you in on a little secret: I have sensitive skin, and I'm a sensitive guy, so shaving is something that I don't look forward to.

Dustin Milligan

#27. The AT is no longer the longest hiking trail - the Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails, both out West, are slightly longer - but it will always be the first and greatest. It has a lot of friends. It deserves them.

Bill Bryson

#28. If I am anorexic, I'd be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.

Anushka Sharma

#29. Life isn't about living the longest; it's about living the most.

Cory Groshek

#30. Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

Steve Saint

#31. To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#32. South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!

Dennis Miller

#33. The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longest day of my life. I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds,

Carol Rifka Brunt

#34. Whatever fears, whatever sense of vulnerability may underlie such behavior, it also comes out of entitlement, the entitlement to inflict suffering and even death on other people. It breeds misery in the perpetrator and the victims. (The Longest War)

Rebecca Solnit

#35. The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.

George Eliot

#36. I'm pretty sure I'm the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

Fennel Hudson

#37. The American people are not remarkable for moderation. They despise halfness. They will go with him who goes farthest and stay with him who stays longest. What the country thinks of half-men and half-measures is seen by the last election. We repudiate all such men and all such measures.

Frederick Douglass

#38. I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.

Fran Lebowitz

#39. The longest journey you'll ever make is the journey from the head to the heart

Lissa Rankin

#40. What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Yitzhak Rabin

#41. Rarely offstage, rarely on hiatus, Fiddler on the Roof has already been back on Broadway for four revivals, played London's West End four times, and remains among Broadway's longest-running shows ever.

Barbara Isenberg

#42. The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Graham Greene

#43. When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.

Matt Lauer

#44. When you ask people, "What's America's longest war?" they usually answer "Vietnam" or amend that to "Afghanistan," but it's neither. America's longest war is the war on drugs.

Don Winslow

#45. The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

Raymond Chandler

#46. They would sneak peeks at me from behind their notebooks or when they thought I wasn't looking. They would take the longest way around me to avoid bumping into me in any way, like I had some germ they could catch, like my face was contagious.

R.J. Palacio

#47. The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#48. I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.

David Crosby

#49. If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.

John Cena

#50. People are not milk cartons. You don't pick and choose the ones you think will last the longest without going sour. If it feels right, you just go with it until it doesn't feel right anymore. And sometimes when something goes wrong, it hurts. That doesn't mean it wasn't worth it in the first place.

Siera Maley

#51. Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.
It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

Charles Dickens

#52. Time is the longest distance between two places.

Tamara Ireland Stone

#53. The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.

Cherie Blair

#54. The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#55. Here's the pitch. Mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into deep left field! It's going, going! It's over the bleachers ... over the sign atop the bleachers ... into the yards of houses across the street! It's got to be one of the longest runs I've ever seen! How about that!

Mel Allen

#56. I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.

Pam Dawber

#57. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

Joseph Addison

#58. Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.

Elena Avila

#59. Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.

Dennis Prager

#60. A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Thomas Watson

#61. People with the most interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

#62. The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned

W. Somerset Maugham

#63. It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

Pico Iyer

#64. It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.

Sophocles

#65. What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

Walter Scott

#66. August is a teacher's longest Sunday -Weird Sisters

Eleanor Brown

#67. What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

Walt Whitman

#68. They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

Jim Shaw

#69. Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

Jack Herer

#70. What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.

Marina Sirtis

#71. Sometimes it's the shortest moments that create the longest impact.'

Neale Donald Walsch

#72. He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.

Richard Baxter

#73. A wise man once said that a person is known by
the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
at the strategic decision making level.

Anuj

#74. For the longest time all I cared about was getting through the day. When your every breath was an effort, that quickly became the extent of your expectations.

A Meredith Walters

#75. Small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

Marcus Aurelius

#76. The pediatric autodoc scanned him, considered for the longest five seconds of Naomi's life, and declared the baby safely within standard error.

James S.A. Corey

#77. In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.

Anthony Trollope

#78. I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

Brad Bird

#79. I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.
It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.

Brian Andreas

#80. For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

Bjorn Lomborg

#81. The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Walter Scott

#82. Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on 'the economy, stupid' - and Clinton's victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history.

Nigel Hamilton

#83. Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all! ... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.

Charles Dickens

#84. 'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

Jill Lepore

#85. The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death ... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

Epicurus

#86. Only the strong survived. Only the strong were rewarded. For the longest time, Four was another conquest. A prize Three had won. Then he'd realized Four was the one who dominated. He'd tamed the dragon, the monster, and given a conscience to Stone's most ruthless killer.

Adrienne Wilder

#87. I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Nella Larsen

#88. When you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, you possess a resource that can give you abundant life through the longest siege of the enemy. The enemy can camp at your doorstep for an indefinite period of time and it won't matter to you. The Holy Spirit is your indwelling source of

David Jeremiah

#89. If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.

Robert Patrick

#90. What are you planning?" "I think you've already guessed," I said. "I have spent the last thirty-six hours digging the world's longest grave, and now I'm going to bury you in your fucking Cadillac." The

Stephen King

#91. Lecktrickery? grinned the fool boys, rubbing their rabbits' feet against the spell of these longest syllables in all Tarnation.

William T. Vollmann

#92. Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Gloria Steinem

#93. For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.

Clay Matthews III

#94. My longest love affair: with a book.

Rebecca Mead

#95. The giant tree starts out as the tiniest shoot, the tallest tower starts out as a single brick, the longest journey starts with the first step.

Lao-Tzu

#96. The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

William Cowper

#97. Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

Randy Bachman

#98. Bereaved people who make the most effort to avoid feeling grief, research suggests, take the longest to recover from their loss.

Oliver Burkeman

#99. The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
And made his torch their universal light.
So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.

John Dryden

#100. On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

Thomas Perez