Quotes about long
long people individual
History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call? Brad Meltzer
long guy left
I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy. Brad Ausmus
long painful
And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life. Jane Green
long silence world
It's more for me as with going into a forest: if you sit quietly for a long time, the life around you emerges. As the world grows ever more clamorous, my hunger for silence steepens. I unplug the landline. Jane Hirshfield
long want compromise
Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values). Jane Goodall
long understanding forests
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
long journalist wanted
I wanted to be a journalist for a long time. Jamie Bell
long purses
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse. Juvenal
long people enough
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely. Charles Bukowski
long-ago world alleys
I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.
long debt needs
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. Benjamin Franklin
long people internet
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews. Ben Brantley
long purpose secession
As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession. Belle Boyd
long focus employment
If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment. Ben Bernanke
long important employment
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
long innovation promise
[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations Promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.
long speak reason
This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in thought, and thought is a great magnet. I have often spoken to thee of reason, now i speak to thee of faith Barbara Taylor Bradford
long bars cages
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
long feelings feeling-sad
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined. Arthur Golden
long effort littles
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. Arthur Conan Doyle
long progress enough
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. Arthur Bloch
long people tangled
If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history. Arthur C. Clarke
long sloth needs
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
long-ago would-be dull
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
long champagne long-time
It's been a long time since I've had champagne. Anton Chekhov
long people important
All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'
long favors pay
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. Baltasar Gracian
long values worthless
The worthless usually live long.
long tire shoulders
Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.
long listening pieces
I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music. Aung San Suu Kyi
long want compromise
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
long would-be natural-instinct
Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.
long would-be littles
I can say with absolute confidence that the general public of Burma would be very little affected, if at all, by sanctions. So far, the kind of investments that have come in have benefited the public very little indeed. If you have been in Burma long enough, you will be aware of the fact that a small elite has developed that is extremely wealthy. Perhaps they would be affected, but my concern is not with them but with the general public.