Long Quotes

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

~ George Bernard Shaw

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

~ Saint Augustine

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

~ Robert Staughton Lynd

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

~ Hector Hugh Munro

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

~ Frederick William Faber

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.

~ Katee Sackhoff

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

~ Dalai Lama

I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.

~ Rivers Cuomo

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.

~ Gene Wilder

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

~ Ellie Goulding

The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.

~ Natasha Leggero

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

~ Carroll O'connor

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

~ Beth Henley

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology I myself own an iPhone.

~ Al Franken

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

~ Richard Dawkins

Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.

~ Mohamed Elbaradei

I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.

~ Sam Altman

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

~ Howard Rheingold

Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology.

~ Paul Di Filippo

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

~ Mia Hamm

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

~ Young Jeezy

In the long run, the government can't bring revival; only the Church can do that. But government can keep us safe and protect our freedoms. I believe that the Trump administration will do that.

~ Robert Jeffress

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

~ Madeleine Albright

Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

~ Bob Barr

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

~ Rand Paul

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

~ Kay Bailey Hutchison

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

~ Bill Moyers

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

~ John Jay Hooker

I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.

~ Graham Norton

Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

~ Gary Weiss

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

~ Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Wells Fargo's internal review only covers unauthorized accounts dating back to 2011. News reports and court documents suggest these problems might have existed long before then. The 2013 'Los Angeles Times' articles led to the L.A. city attorney's office investigation into Wells Fargo's sales practices.

~ Richard Shelby

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

~ Sun Tzu

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

~ Damon Runyon

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

~ Igor Stravinsky

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

~ Bill Gates