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Quotes About Long

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
~ Shakespeare, William
Cozy place you got here," he said, looking around the office. "You read all them books?" "I fear not. But one cannot simply get rid of books, you know. Especially books which have reposed so long on the same shelf." "Reckon they're good insulation," Yulie said, nodding at the shelving stretching from floor to ceiling along the interior wall.
~ Sharon Lee
I want my fluff-fluff! (Bob) Fluff-fluff… (Zarek looked panicked.) (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
you need to check that tone, boy. Remember, I used to kill people for a living, and I ain't been up long enough to have much tolerance right about now. knock it down a notch before I forget I'm supposed to actually like you.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?
~ Elizabeth Banks
Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.
~ Michael Jordan
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood
~ N. Scott Momaday
Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.
~ Roger Zelazny
Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.
~ Sri Aurobindo
You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?
~ Sri Chinmoy
Red hair is my life long sorrow.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
A holistic, habitat-based approach to human health is long overdue.
~ John Durant
I named him Poodle, beginning a long tradition of functional pet naming.
~ John Elder Robison
His long limbs didn't fit to easily into a drawing room, where it seemed one or other of them was always flailing out of its own accord, tipping a little side table here or tripping a rug there; he was like a huge epileptic heron.
~ John Harding
all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness
~ john j geddes
The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong.
~ Elinor Wylie
Kovo looked at the boy for a long moment, misery etched in his face. Then, with a shimmering flash and a popping sound, the ape vanished.
~ Eliot Schrefer
I been in sorrow's kitchen and done licked out all the pots. Nobody knows the trouble I seen. Steal away to Jesus. I ain't got long to stay here.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
That life is short and art long appears to us more true than usual when we lie all day long on a sofa and are as frightened of the east wind as if it were a tiger. Life is not only short, but uncertain, and art is not only long, but absorbing.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She seemed to him a long spill of dark water, a black surface shattered with ephermal reflections of light.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Poets are too precious to sacrifice carelessly," he said, his long mouth downturned at the corners. "It had to be something other than Master Shakespeare himself.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The drink is drunk. The dice and draughts are set aside at the waning edge of a long night of testing conversations and ugly murmurs.
~ Elizabeth Bear