Too Long Quotes

#1. Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.

John S. Watson

#2. Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.

Scarlett Dawn

#3. When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long.

Deepika Padukone

#4. Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time ... The wait is simply too long.

Leonard Bernstein

#5. Southern gentleman," he said aside to him in Arabic. "Do you wish for me to continue this for you?"
Caine's temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. "Your way takes too long."
"Ma'aleyk, and your way hurts my ears," he argued.

V.S. Carnes

#6. I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.

John Allison

#7. It is not wise for a mortal man to gaze too long into the darkness. He comes to see strange shapes and cold imaginings. He comes to doubt all that he once held true.

Catherine Fisher

#8. What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

Denis Leary

#9. Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

Kay Hagan

#11. When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way ...

Ayumi Hamasaki

#12. Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

Eric Holder

#13. We looked at each other a little too long to be 'just friends

Wils

#14. I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

Darrell Royal

#15. The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

Lillian Smith

#16. Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It's nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long.

Nicci French

#17. My point is that things become weird and pointless if you examine them for too long.

Liane Moriarty

#18. He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

Ray Bradbury

#19. Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that's when you know you been planted too long.

Sheri Reynolds

#20. Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

Bryan Hayes

#21. I think about you all the time. Where you are, what you're doing, why I'm not with you. I go to Verde on Sundays because two days without seeing you is two days too long.

Viv Daniels

#22. The Royal University will get along fine without me." "And the Malcontents won't?" "If I'm away too long, they tend cause trouble. Set fires. That sort of thing." Cleasby grinned. "Sorry, sir, but I think they need me more.

Larry Correia

#23. People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

Daron Malakian

#24. For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

Linda Sanchez

#25. I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#26. Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

Lynn Caine

#27. I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

Paul Ryan

#28. This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

Bob Kane

#29. Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

Carrie Fisher

#30. Nine games? It's too long.

Derek Jeter

#31. Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill's due. Today.

David Mitchell

#32. You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims.

Max Lucado

#33. I've been living for too long abroad and aboard,
Methinking the concept of being grounded or floored.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#34. We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries.

Richard Rohr

#35. If some area of your life sucks - do something else. Life is too short - and too long - to spend it being miserable. Life may indeed be short but it is for a fact wide. It is high time we started settling for more.

Jill Conner Browne

#36. Don't look at the shadows too long or a demon might look back.

Rosamund Hodge

#37. And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

Iris Dement

#38. To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.

Chuck Palahniuk

#39. I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.

Ben Elliot

#40. Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.

Wynton Marsalis

#41. God, you tick me off."
"Well, at least I got you - "
"Don't even finish that statement!" I snatched up my socks and tights. Rolling them on, I hobbled on one foot. "Ugh, I hate you sometimes."
He sat up in one fluid motion. "Not too long ago, you were really, really loving me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

Hannah Harrington

#43. He was on her mind but she doesn't let anyone stay for too long.

Donna Lynn Hope

#44. One day the worlds male population will spontaneously combust because they've kept too much stuff in for too long.

Mike Gayle

#45. In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

Whitney Houston

#46. We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

Pearl Cleage

#47. She's clearly gone too long without male companionship if any brute who walked her way made her sit up and take notice.

Cari Quinn

#48. As soon as we get the place secure, I'll get in touch," Miller said. "Okay, but don't take too long. If Thoth Station has a whorehouse left standing, I'm going to need help prying Amos out of it.

James S.A. Corey

#49. It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long

Samantha Shannon

#50. We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Robert Toombs

#51. I was going to buy my girl a Packard car for Christmas, but it took too long to deliver, so I bought her some handkerchiefs.

Jack Benny

#52. He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars.

Nalini Singh

#53. I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#54. Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast ...

Sam Altman

#55. I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

Gordon Clark

#56. There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#57. A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

#58. I'll wait for you to find me again. So don't take too long.
-Dmitri

Nalini Singh

#59. The No. 1 criticism most managers get is that they don't ever change or wait too long to make changes ... It's very simple: Either things are performing or they're not. And if it's not performing, we have to make changes.

Tim Armstrong

#60. I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

Louis L'Amour

#61. There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.

George Deukmejian

#62. If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

#63. I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

Grace Slick

#64. Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

Charles Saatchi

#65. Davis is naturally a sweet-natured person.He's just been hanging around Nick and Gavin too long.Its a wonder they don't have him stealing candy from babies, or blasting rap music out of his car stereo in front of the retirement home.

Jennifer Echols

#66. Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

James Thurber

#67. Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#68. Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Alfred North Whitehead

#69. Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#70. It will be a long while until I shall call myself well. I think perhaps too long - longer than I have left to live. But for now, I feel a great deal better than I did, and that is enough.

G. Willow Wilson

#71. Stay in one place too long and the tide can overwhelm you. Ride the tide, surf the waves, stay on top of the changes.

Ron Kaufman

#72. I kiss her for way too long at the door, and not for the first time, I wish that I could stay with her, to help chase those dark clouds away.

Siobhan Davis

#73. For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet ... and hoped that they would go away.

Richard J. Codey

#74. Relax. Take a break, but don't make it last too long. Otherwise, it will break you down.

M..

#75. For some things there are no explanations - no reasons, and so, when these things happen, there is nothing to talk about really. And it is best not to dwell on said things for too long, because you will find that life has no real meaning if you do.

Matthew Quick

#76. A truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought

Tami Hoag

#77. there will be no road too long as we are looking for happiness

Jan Jansen

#78. I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

Eric Holder

#79. Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware of getting out while the going's good.

Antony Starr

#80. I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.

Lauren DeStefano

#81. Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#82. We had a son, whom we named Bertran. Just the one, though I prayed for more. Loving him made me rich in ways I'd too long been poor.

Julie Berry

#83. It was all he'd felt for too long to change now. Maybe it was too late for any other kind of life. This was all he knew. It was safe, insulated. Familiar. An absense of emotion kept him sane. Or what passed for it.

Virginia Brown

#84. I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

Lou Reed

#85. From the way Blake was looking at me, I for the feeling he'd finally figured it out. Maybe that was one thing about him that had changed. But it had taken him too long.

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#86. If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Zig Ziglar

#87. [O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).

Richard Baxter

#88. Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. He has not come; he never will come. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again.

Eugene V. Debs

#89. But the queen
too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [ ... ]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.

Virgil

#90. The nights are too long,' he told Missandei, 'and there is much and more to do, always.

George R R Martin

#91. Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

John Dryden

#92. Tread carefully when using a Time-Turner, stop searching for the Chamber of Secrets - unless you're a Parselmouth - and don't linger too long before the Mirror of Erised.

J.K. Rowling

#93. Forever turned out to be too long.

Julia Ormond

#94. I've bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.

Rachel Caine

#95. Uh, sure, if it doesn't take too long. I'm supposed to be at a big police banquet in about thirty seconds. They'll probably send a car by for me if I'm late.

Tim Tharp

#96. Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

Neil Gaiman

#97. I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.

Leland Gregory

#98. The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.

Baltasar Kormakur

#99. Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

John Galliano

#100. You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.

David Eddings