Quotes about long
long waiting forever
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain. Samuel Beckett
long way obstacles
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. Sally Ride
long people trying
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you. Salma Hayek
long people
Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say. Salman Rushdie
long furniture shame
Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
long special cost
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
long lists judgment
I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out. Ryan Reynolds
long littles world
A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this. Rudy Rucker
long-ago judgment accusation
Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged W. H. Auden
long people normal
As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine. Wayne Dyer
long tables straightforward
I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table. Tory Burch
long feelings needs
... 'I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything's gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it!'. [pp. 84-85] Tove Jansson
long humanity humans
Humanity will live as long as there are humans. Vasily Grossman
long break
The idea [of A Period of Transition albom] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12. Van Morrison
long clubs causes
For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
long simplicity decision
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness. Ursus Wehrli
long simplicity ordinariness
We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
long may events
An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain. Upton Sinclair
long silence solitude
The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude. Ursula K. Le Guin
long
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
long parent age
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.
long forever way
Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things Walt Disney
long creative depth
It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring... Vissarion Belinsky
long growth doe
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. Vinton Cerf
long acres earth
Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Walt Whitman
long-ago long
But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?
long forget ecstasy
The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
long democracy would-be
Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions. Saul Alinsky
long tactics drag
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
long tea way
As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, its fine with me. Sarah Ferguson
long-distance-relationship distance distance-relationship
Do we need distance to get close? Sarah Jessica Parker
long labels pages
All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. Sarah Dessen
long hopeful comfort
And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.