Quotes About Staying Too Long

#1. I'm just playing it safe. I'm staying as far away from the edge as possible, so I don't go plummeting off with a guy who may not even stick around long enough to help peel me off the ground.

Tracy Lane

#2. Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.

Tracy K. Smith

#3. Earlier this year, I'd told a mother at school I'd been married fifteen year. She asked, "What's the secret to a long marriage?" I thought for a second, then answered, "Staying married.

Maria Semple

#4. I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

Jonathan Demme

#5. It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her life next to him. Fight for the only thing she knew that was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be, worth risking everything.
Love.

Lauren Kate

#6. There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Josh Duhamel

#7. The drinking bone is connected to the party bone, the party bone is connected to the staying out all night long.

Tracy Byrd

#8. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

Pink Floyd

#9. Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.

Robin Sharma

#11. Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

Paulo Coelho

#12. 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

#13. Hear that, Eustace? He wishes we were staying a good long time."
"I expect it will seem a good long time," said Eustace, philosophically.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew ... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can ...

Tennessee Williams

#15. I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

Sarah Schulman

#16. My friends and family definitely helped me with the biggest obstacle in my life, which was just staying in L.A. long enough to really give it a shot.

Robbie Amell

#17. You did not walk away from those you loved. You fought for them, always, with everything you had, even if it meant fighting the long fight, and staying on the hardest, quietest, most difficult course.

Thea Harrison

#18. For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

John Trudell

#19. My mistake was not in speaking out. No, my mistake was staying silent for too long.

Hannah Harrington

#20. You don't need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem.

Albert Einstein

#22. Percy: We're staying together. You're not getting away from me. Never again.
Annabeth: As long as we're together.

Rick Riordan

#23. You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

John Mulaney

#24. Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

Joyce Rachelle

#25. 12 Hours on the computer... sounds like I am vip... few people stay on computer so long or not big %.

Deyth Banger

#26. No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

Charles R. Swindoll

#27. I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.

Alanis Morissette

#28. Aria smiled shyly. "How long are you staying?"
"How long do you want me to stay?"
Forever, Aria wanted to say.

Sara Shepard

#29. I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do ... and pay my bills.

Gina Rodriguez

#30. I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#31. To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller

#32. ...Mrs. Percy understood that staying beautiful all day long is the most important aspect of being married...

Tevin Hansen

#33. You'll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don't have to worry about staying alive any more because you'll be dead.

Sebastyne Young

#34. For too long the pro-life movement has been shouting conclusions rather than establishing facts. Staying focused on the status of the unborn brings moral clarity to the abortion debate.

Scott Klusendorf

#35. It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

Donald Trump

#36. Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.

Amy Dickinson

#37. Long ago she had thought bravery equaled wandering, the power was in the journey. Now she knew that, for her, it took no courage to leave; strength came from returning. Strength lay in staying.

Eleanor Brown

#38. [ ... ] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history of staying out of wars, preferring to devote themselves to more constructive endeavours like science, secure banking and building extremely accurate clocks.

Gavin Extence

#39. It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.

Dennis Quaid

#40. Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Sean Faris

#41. I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.

Oliver Stone

#42. You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.

Anna Quindlen

#43. Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

Helen Hayes

#44. I'm going to try to stay buff as long as I can, but it takes a lot of discipline and staying away from your favorite junk food!.

Tobey Maguire

#45. Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Karl Albrecht

#46. I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.

Joseph Conrad

#47. It's never either-or, never enjoyment versus advancement, so long as you conceive of advancement in terms of learning rather than climbing to the next rung of the professional ladder. You are getting ahead if you learn, even if you wind up staying on the same rung.

Chris Hadfield

#48. I can't promise you a perfect relationship without arguments over our differences and trust issues. However, I can promise you that as long as you're trying, I'm staying

Dreamer

#49. All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

Warren Buffett

#50. He remains kind, but a feeling nags at me, staying with me long after I leave. And it's this: It doesn't matter what I did to him. He can choose to remain detached, untouched by me. Something I can't do back.

Kerry Cohen

#51. These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America's ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what's left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Escalade or a 633i for however long they have left.

Matt Taibbi

#52. Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.

T. Berry Brazelton