Quotes about long
long trying lanes
Gerard Butler As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.
long doubt would-be
Georgette Heyer You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?”(Elizabeth Ombersley) “No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!” “Augustus,” announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, “will be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!” “By his creditors? I don’t doubt it.
long miles
Georgette Heyer Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
long kind mature
Harriet Walter I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
long grapes
Horace Don't long for the unripe grape.
long needs use
Herman Cain We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.
long effort voyages
Herman Melville ...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.
long quality world
Herman Melville truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.
long machines want
Herbert Beerbohm Tree Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
long worry attention
Herb Caen I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long...
long poetry poet
Henry David Thoreau As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
long looks long-time
Henry David Thoreau We must look a long time before we can see
long burden
Henry David Thoreau As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
long-distance-relationship nature taken
Henry David Thoreau Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
long awkward tails
Henry David Thoreau The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?
long style results
Henry David Thoreau Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
long people world
Jean-Jacques Rousseau As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
long training hot
Jessica Ennis To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with a box set. I'm a box-set junkie! I absolutely love 'Grey's Anatomy.'
long bigs take-me
Jessica Chastain It takes me a LONG time to make a big purchase.
long-ago important stories
Jeremy Brett To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.
long needs locks
Jeremy Grantham The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems.
long want living-my-life
Jennifer Connelly I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life
long answers ruins
Jeff Vandermeer Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.
long racing realizing
Jeff Gordon I've been racing a long time, and I realize you go through good streaks and bad streaks.
long house shadow
Jean Rhys I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards.
long understanding mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.
long three exhausted
Grimes The groove can go for like three days - once I'm in it it will just keep going until I'm totally exhausted. But that's how I like to work, I like to be away from everyone and just get in the zone, and stay there for as long as I can keep it there.
long happens anything-is-possible
Graham Greene As long as nothing happens anything is possible...
long suffering
Graham Greene As long as one suffers one lives.
long
Graham Greene Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
long cases priests
Graham Greene Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
long curiosity ifs
Graham Greene If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.