Top 100 Not Long Quotes
#1. By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
Nikola Tesla
#2. Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. So when will be the time to get on the train?
I think ... a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
Gregory David Roberts
#4. I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
Aaron Sorkin
#5. The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to time we hear the opposite, then those are just trivial religious and poetical exaggerations and ridiculous rumors, which have nothing to do with the real circumstances of the simple dead.
Hassan Blasim
#6. What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
Jean Rostand
#7. Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
Geoff Capes
#8. We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as "natural disasters or "acts of God." But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.
David Suzuki
#9. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.
Michael Pollan
#10. We will face a day, not long from now, when all of our information comes from digital sources, meaning that rumors and untruths can spread even more quickly than before.
George Takei
#11. I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.
Clifford D. Simak
#12. Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.
Ronald Reagan
#13. The present will not long endure.
Pindar
#15. I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.
Laila Ali
#16. But the disposition to disagree, to reject and to dissent - however irritating it may be when taken to extremes - is the very lifeblood of an open society. We need people who make a virtue of opposing mainstream opinion. A democracy of permanent consensus will not long remain a democracy.
Tony Judt
#17. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.
James Madison
#18. The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#19. I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.
Jonathan Franzen
#20. If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.
David Harvey
#21. We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.
Oliver Heaviside
#22. Look not long at what's offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away.
Stephen King
#23. For someone who had died not long ago, she felt more alive with him than ever.
Donna Augustine
#24. He who delights in work will not long remain unemployed.
James Allen
#26. There was a time, not long ago
When flowers grew all year
When days were long
And nights star-strewn
And men lived free from fear
Katherine Arden
#27. Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. They long for fathers who have themselves survived intact. Boys do not ache for their father's masculinity. They ache for their fathers' hearts.
T. Real
#28. Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
Jill Lepore
#29. We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
C.S. Lewis
#30. Not long ago the world looked on the dark ages with contempt for its brutality, yet here it is again, in full force, a lawless sadism unpolished by all the charms of religion and civilization." Sitting
Diane Ackerman
#31. It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
Mark Twain
#32. Not long after we started working for him I asked Bernard if he thought Thatcher was evil,'I said. 'He said it was like asking what jazz is.
Jack Womack
#33. If Christ be your one and only love, if your heart has cast out all rivals, you will not long lack the comfort of His presence.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#34. Not long after my mom died, my dad pretty much kicked me out of the house. He never said, "Get out of my house," but instead, I came home one night to find all my clothes scattered all over our front lawn.
Brenda Perlin
#35. Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first ... If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first ... one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.
Calvin Coolidge
#36. You don't know that." He made a face, doubting this. "You don't. You have your whole life ahead of you."
"Maybe," he said. "But even that's not long to be the person she deserves.
Sarah Dessen
#37. Varys appeared not long after Lord Jacelyn had left. "Men are such faithless creatures," he said by way of greeting. Tyrion sighed. "Who's the traitor today?" The eunuch handed him a scroll. "So much villainy, it sings a sad song for our age. Did honor die with your fathers?
George R R Martin
#38. When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.
Harry Belafonte
#39. Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
Randy Wayne White
#40. One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.
Confucius
#41. I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thinness of old age.
Charles Finch
#42. A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.
Joe Biden
#43. I'm not often bored,' I assured her. Life's not long enough for that.
Agatha Christie
#44. It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.
Saadi
#45. At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.
James Weldon Johnson
#46. His attention span was not long, shall we say?
Lauren Bacall
#47. The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
Dante Alighieri
#48. Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.
Don DeLillo
#49. He might be damn good looking, but that didn't make up for kissing me not long after I caught a man giving him head. It just didn't. That's not the kind of woman I was. Men had to earn my kisses, not steal them.
Rachael Orman
#50. It's only forever...
Not long at all.
John Green
#51. Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
Rami Malek
#52. He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
Homer
#53. The pink petals hung raw and shook with the cold and wind. How they hung on out of season, the struggle of it, the strength it took. Not long now, and they'd be brown stains on a stalk.
Gerard Donovan
#54. We may not long for bread, but we long for meaning, intimacy, fulfillment, community, purpose, and joy.
Tim Chester
#55. Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?
Beth Moore
#56. I've only known you a couple of days. That's not long at all. I don't know you well enough to pretend like I know you and your problems. But I want to know you. I want to know your problems. That is ... if you want to know me.
Nicole Williams
#58. Forever's a long time." Trent's arms squeeze around me. "Forever's not long enough when it's with you.
K.A. Tucker
#59. We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed for us.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#60. A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
E. J. Dionne
#61. It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#62. What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.
Lou Andreas-Salome
#63. Because he was going to marry her.
"It is customary to ask," she now said as she turned to watch him button up a black shirt over that chest she'd licked and sucked and kissed not long ago.
"Why?" He shrugged. "I'm not giving you a choice.
Nalini Singh
#64. Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.
Michael Moore
#65. They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.
Ernest Dowson
#66. Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
Vincent Van Gogh
#67. We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#68. I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church ...
John Malkovich
#69. The reverend insists we occupy the first pew. He rang us up not long ago, tipsy
he's a tippler
saying that our faces brought him closer to God. And it's true, we're terribly good-looking people.
David Sedaris
#70. Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
Gertrude Atherton
#71. Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.
Emayatzy Corinealdi
#72. for you to drive off the bridge, but not long enough
S.G. Lents
#73. At the very first he knew he was lying, but it was not long before he was equally sure that every one of his stories was true.
John Steinbeck
#74. In my bones, I know that I am not long for this world.
Dean Koontz
#75. Not long after, as Tom, all undressed for bed, was surveying his drenched garments by the light of
Mark Twain
#76. According to Seneca, Apicius committed suicide because, having spent one tenth of a considerable fortune on his kitchen, he realized that he could not long continue in the style he had chosen.
Mark Kurlansky
#77. In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#78. Chapter XX Happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing
Walter Scott
#79. Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.
Lee Trevino
#80. Lyndon Johnson's sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.
Robert A. Caro
#81. Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
Richard Harris Barham
#82. Not long ago, someone who was dissatisfied with his or her spouse and wanted a divorce had to justify that decision. Today it's the opposite: If you're not fulfilled by your marriage, you have to justify staying in it, because of the tremendous cultural pressure to be good to one's self.
Anonymous
#83. [To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
Dorothea Dix
#84. They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.
Ernest Dowson
#85. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
Florence Nightingale
#86. I'll love you until there's no breath left in my lungs, Olivia Taylor." He locates my hand and brings my diamond to his lips. "For eternity."
Ishake my head middly. "It's not long enough."
"Then beyind that, too," he whispers.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#87. Marissa Mayer, who became one of Silicon Valley's most famous working mothers not long after she took over as Yahoo's CEO in 2012, says that burnout isn't caused by working too hard, but by resentment at having to give up what really matters to you.
Eric Schmidt
#88. Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for?
Andrew Sean Greer
#89. The battle proved a victory - at least in part - and soon after, his grandfather finally died, and Ser Elmo became Lord of Riverrun. But he did not long enjoy his station; he died on the march forty-nine days later, leaving his young son, Ser Kermit, to succeed him.
George R R Martin
#90. Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
Marcel Proust
#91. How long till you get her?"
"Not long," she says. "Not long at all."
He sighs again. "Good."
"But dad?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you remind me where I'm going?
Jennifer E. Smith
#92. I can't promise you forever, because that's not long enough. - Jason Dorsey
Jasinda Wilder
#93. Wheatyard came through as a storm, sudden and jarring, then gone not long after.
Peter Anderson
#94. Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.
David Mackay
#95. Not long ago, the city patrols would have arrested him on sight. Now, he's leaving the Republic as their champion, to be celebrated and remembered for a lifetime.
Marie Lu
#96. We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#97. Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
#99. I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.
Anthony Kiedis
#100. A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
Jacob Braude
