Quotes About Long

The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself, the history of science was in many ways an almanac of highly unlikely victories.

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

I myself have started to feel the onset of something, a sadness perhaps, the dawn of a new season, and existence even. But enough of this. Tell me about yourself and what it is like where you are. Do the leaves ever stop falling? Are the shadows ever anything but long? — Mark Strand, from "Two Letters," The Continuous Life: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992)

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

I have to leave," she gasped. "I have to go back. If they see us—" "They will not see us. And you cannot leave yet, the wager is only half paid." "But you said—" "A kiss. A long sweet kiss. And that"—his dark head bent to her again—"was not long enough, my lady. Not nearly long enough.

This is Tremaine Valiarde." There was a faint gasp at the other end. "I can't speak long"—family code for someone is listening—"but I needed to let Uncle Galiard know that I'm all right." I need help and I need it now.

As I suggested before, temporary variables can be a problem. They are only useful within their own routine, and therefore they encourage long, complex routines.

What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.

We can finally offer an answer to the question: does Britain possess a constitution? The answer is that the traditional idea of a constitution which the British have long celebrated has become so corroded that it no longer provides a coherent account of the nature of British government

The insanity of our rulers also calls down punishments upon us which we have merited for a long time so that our princes become insane and mad and let the Turk come into the land.

All the little emptiness of love

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

Am I never to meet the backbone of Venda, or will I only be pointed at with your long, bony finger?" He looked down briefly at his gloved hands, and a sliver of satisfaction warmed me.

She didn't fear death itself, welcoming release from her long struggle between mind and body.

Ross next looked at Juliet, who was about a hundred yards away and slightly ahead of him. She walked like a desert prince, long black robes swinging around her long strides and her face completely obscured by her tagelmoust.

It was best to be pined for when you went missing.

do nae want ye to.

he had focused so long on the precision of the word, the utterance that was most unfettered by artful manipulation, that the thing had become mere style.

Trump's presidency emboldened the forces within the conservative movement that had long sought to expel the neoconservatives and libertarians.

I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

never replied to forevers. Life was long, and full of surprises.

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Here was this really nice guy who happened to be uber-shy... and with just a little encouragement, he was suddenly smiling and joking and having fun. Really, what had taken them so long?