Quotes About Long

We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.

One of the things I liked about her [Dorothy] was that she had long fingernails that she would carefully manicure and paint to fit her mood. If she were in a happy mood, her nails would be bright red. If she were feeling like she wanted to eviscerate her mother she would paint her nails burgundy.

These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

The process of cultural change is a long and difficult one.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

because long dresses are stupid and impractical.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.

The sun loses its thin grip on the air first, turning it cold, making it remember that winter is coming and winter will be long. Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. They are gaunt, mean shadows that bite the ground like teeth.

One's life is short, but the life of the spirit is long.

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

One of the many reasons human cultures have long associated sleep with death is that they each demonstrate the continuity of the world in our absence.

The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

But I am enjoying the feeling of inbetweenness — that not-yet-being-settled feeling — and I plan on dragging it out as long as I can, because its a state of grace where all things are permissible.

Grey had maintained a long and passionate affair with pain. He knew all her secrets.

The data tell a clear story: families leave poverty in great numbers, and they enter poverty in great numbers. Only a small share lives in poverty for long periods.

la vida es corta pero el día largo

Well, say you write a handler and it requires a lot of computation — that is, something that takes a long time to compute. As long as your handler is chugging along computing, I'm sitting around waiting until it's done. Only then can I continue with the queue.

We have waited long. Learn who to trust. It is heart that knows truth. Don't close eyes and wait for path to choose you. Choose path and follow it.

The long procession of men flickered before her like faces on cards quickly riffled—blurred, two-dimensional. Only their desire for her mattered.