Long Quotes

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

~ Galileo Galilei

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.

~ Klaus Schwab

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

~ Scott Adams

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

~ Joseph P. Kennedy

I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

~ Brad Feld

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

~ Joe Jamail

I like my hair long, and I love my bangs. I love them because I can pin them back or keep the fringe with attitude.

~ Cassie Steele

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.

~ Jerry Della Femina

In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.

~ Shiv Nadar

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

~ Frans De Waal

Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.

~ Leonard Susskind

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

~ Daniel Burnham

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

~ Liu Xiaobo

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

~ James Longstreet

For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

~ Daniel Morgan

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

~ Nancy Reagan

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

~ Sandra Lee

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

~ John Green

I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.

~ Action Bronson

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

~ Samuel Johnson

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

~ Jack Kerouac

I think as long as you wear your imperfections on your sleeve, people respect it more.

~ Shamir

My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even came into the picture.

~ Stephanie Mcmahon

France can certainly accommodate foreign people on its soil long-term, those with foreign citizenship... as long as they respect French laws and French values, which is often a problem on the immigration issue. It's not really a problem with Israel on this topic.

~ Marine Le Pen

The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.

~ Robert Redford

If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own territory. As long as you go international, you really have to be sure that there is an international law which you respect and which you follow.

~ Sergei Lavrov

As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.

~ Darren Flutie

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

~ Alexander Mcqueen

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true.

~ Roxane Gay

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

~ Baltasar Gracián

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

~ Christopher Nolan

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

~ Steve Erickson

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

~ Will Rogers

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

~ Max Irons

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

~ Allen Klein

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

~ Ivan Reitman

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

~ Berkeley Breathed

Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesn't go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn't expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn't have Twitter.

~ Anna Kendrick