Quotes About Long

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

I chose the Congress for its thoughts, its acceptance of people of all opinions, and its wide perspective. Another reason for joining the party was my family, which is attached to the Congress for a long period of time.

I'm in love with wigs. I get them custom-made, and I have my hairstylist shape them to my head. I can go from short to long in less than a minute!

Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way.

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

We have had dealings with terrorists for a long time. From 1948 until 1990, we had domestic terrorism because the pro-communist groups wanted to overthrow the colonial government.

For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.

See, it's all a movie in this country and if you wait long enough you get your happy ending. Until somebody else's movie starts.

I've been silent for so long I don't know where to start. Anywhere would do. But ancient custom has it that everything begins with the gods.

the long neck that extended from his stiff collar.

So, how long has my mother had this questionable fetish for bisexual Barrayaran admirals? I don't think even the Betans have earrings for that one.

Horseriver first, before he'd been exhausted by this night, could he have taken apart what Horseriver's long curse had welded together?

I'm calling in a favor, she stated. Silence filled the line. She could almost feel the intractable Breed mulling over possibilities and wondering which favor she would call. You have a surplus, he finally sighed. Will it get me killed? She almost grinned at that. She couldn't imagine Mordecai contemplating death, let alone worrying if it would affect him. I guess anything is possible, she mused. You backing out? He grunted at that. Life's too long sometimes anyway.

You're going to hurt yourself." She worked up a few tears, letting them glisten on her long dark lashes. " You're hurting me." "Not yet," Trace told her, unmoved by the false show of emotion. "But the idea of putting you over my knee gets more tempting by the second.

I wished I had a book. It had been so long since I had read. Could a man forget how to read?

I'd know that odor anywhere! The smell of graves opened! Old graves! Of bodies long dead!" Pausing

A lot of people hear about violence but never come face to face with it, and they've no experience with men of violence. One thing I'd learned a long time back: you just can't waste time talking. If there's talking to do, do it afterwards.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

Now proscribed from asking Rockefeller for more money, Harper forfeited the easy access he had long cherished.

Washington, unfazed, sent this screed to Hamilton, who replied that "it is long since I have learnt to hold popular opinion of no value."37

She managed to clear her throat. I'm sure this is impossible for you to comprehend, Deuce, but somehow, some way, without formal therapy or controlled substances, every single resident in the town of Rockingham, Massachusetts, has managed to survive your long absence. Every. Single. One.