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Quotes About Long

short and long whitish sticks and thinner white sticks and something like a long, curved rod with ridges all along its length.
~ Ruth Rendell
Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.
~ Sagan, Carl
Maybe this is what human history was: the brief illusion of happy victories set in a long continuum of bitter, disillusioning defeats.
~ Salman Rushdie
A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.
~ Salman Rushdie
You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.
~ Collette West, Inside Game
The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.
~ Euripides
I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.
~ Alaine Chartrand
In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long.
~ Alexandre Dumas
had been awakened from its long sleep and come to life; it sang and blossomed like one of those houses that we have long cherished and in which, when we are unfortunate enough to leave them, we involuntarily relinquish a part of our souls.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Having reached the summit of his vengeance by a long and tortuous path, he saw an abyss of doubt yawning before him.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Midsummer's Eve, the summer solstice, when the day is so long it seems for once there is all the time in the world.
~ Alice Hoffman
If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have.
~ Alice Hoffman
But false cheer is draining, and if you pretend long enough there's always the possibility that you'll become an automaton.
~ Alice Hoffman
I actually had a long career as a flirt ahead of me. It's quite a natural behaviour, once the loss of love makes you give up your ideas of marriage.
~ Alice Munro
I was here for a moment, and then I was gone. I wish you all a long and happy life.
~ Alice Sebold
His eyes are the colour of the lowest notes on a cello. His eyelashes are so long, I feel them brush against my face as he blinks.
~ Alison Wearing
There is no subtle way to mention you miss the curve of someone's ass.
~ Joey Comeau
Email me dirty pictures of you with my name in marker everywhere. I get crazy thinking about your eyes when you cry. I miss you all wrong.
~ Joey Comeau
The policy of prohibition summoned these characters into existence, because it needs them. So long as it lives, they live.
~ Johann Hari
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.
~ Loren Eiseley
My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.
~ Alice Cary
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.
~ Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
Life is short. Eternity is long.
~ Bentley Little