Long Quotes

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

~ Khalil Gibran

We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

~ Gerard Manley Hopkins

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

~ Hannah Arendt

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

~ Ron White

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

~ Jilly Cooper

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

~ Charles Darwin

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

~ Émile Durkheim

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

~ Burton Richter

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

~ Danny Devito

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

~ John Mellencamp

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

~ Luanne Rice

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

~ Mike Tyson

We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.

~ Oliver Tambo

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

~ Frédéric Chopin

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

~ William Moulton Marston

God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.

~ Bethany Hamilton

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

~ James Hetfield

For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.

~ Bernie Sanders

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

~ James Anthony Froude

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

~ Francis Quarles

When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

~ Ted Cruz

I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.

~ Richard Linklater

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

~ Lindsey Vonn

TV requires a lot more patience. No one's ever like, 'I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!' It's an easy life. With 'Silicon Valley,' it's long hours and very unglamorous.

~ Kumail Nanjiani

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

~ John Major

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

~ Frances O'grady

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

~ Robert Falcon Scott

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

~ Susan Ertz

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

~ Morrissey

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

~ Paul Simon

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

~ Davy Crockett

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

~ Elizabeth Mccracken

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

~ George Carlin

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

~ Kevin Smith

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

~ Aubrey De Grey

We die only once, and for such a long time.

~ Molière

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

~ Pink