Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Mahy

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

Michael Jackson

We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

Michael Crichton

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

Mia Hamm

Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

Melissa Manchester

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

Michel de Montaigne

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Michael Novak

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Michael Nesmith

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Markus Zusak

She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.

Markus Zusak

I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.

Bill Rodgers

So, I would recommend one longer run daily, with your longest run when you can get the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

Abraham Lincoln

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

Robert Stephens

People will live with problems for a lot longer than they need to.

Jean-Claude Juncker

I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.

Jim Harrison

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

Jerry Spinelli

You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.

Jerry Spinelli

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

Jerry Seinfeld

If I want a long boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

Jenny Slate

I want to keep growing and I want to be an actress for as long as I can.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Trust is not an important element; it is THE important element in any LONG TERM success with anyone or any company.

Jeffrey Kluger

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

Jeffrey Eugenides

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

Jeff Lynne

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

Jim Elliot

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

Jill Dando

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

Jesse Jackson

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

Jennifer Lee

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

Jennifer Pahlka

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

Jennifer Lawrence

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

Jennifer Lopez

You get to a point in life where it suddenly occurs to you that you don't need all the things you once thought you did--that it's really, well, convoluted. My life feels overblown sometimes, and I don't want it to be. I want it to be streamlined. So I'm living a much more unscripted life now than I have in a long time.