Quotes About Longest

The last days of May are among the longest of the year, and in spite of the ferry-dock lights and the lights of the cars streaming into the belly of the boat, she could see some glow in the western sky and against it the black mound of an island.

Smiles is the longest word, with a mile between two S's.

Anderson's been here the longest, he brought our sport to the forefront. He's been around, and yeah, I've always been a fan and I've always enjoyed his fighting style.

Monday morning at last! Sunday had seemed like the longest day of my life. I had finished Freaky Friday, read three more chapters of The Incredible Journey and written a story about a frog in a rainstorm called Rainy Days and Froggy Nights. I had entertained Nicky and baked cookies with Margo. When all that was done, it was still only 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

An employee who works for merely own profit in terms of money, but pretends to be doing the job in the interest or benefit of his/her employer or company often enjoys the most and stays the longest in that private organization.

The American people are not remarkable for moderation. They despise halfness. They will go with him who goes farthest and stay with him who stays longest. What the country thinks of half-men and half-measures is seen by the last election. We repudiate all such men and all such measures.

In fact, for the longest time on Earth, philosophy would not have been at all possible without an ascetic cover and costume, without an ascetic misunderstanding.

that that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

Life is the longest death in California.

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

Two days later, Michael Stich and I won the darkness-delayed doubles final against Jim Grabb and Richey Reneberg, 5–7, 7–6, 3–6, 7–6, and 19–17. It was the longest Wimbledon final ever in terms of games—eighty-three!—and the energy of the crowd, which had been let in for free on the extra day, made me forget how tired and stiff I actually was. Not too shabby for an old man.

I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

The United States has the most powerful government, with the longest reach, of any nation in history. It is also the Brokest Nation in History. Resolving that contradiction is unlikely to be pretty.

In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.

Other dictionaries in other languages took longer to make; but none was greater, grander, or had more authority than this. The greatest effort since the invention of printing. The longest sensational serial ever written.

Long shadows cast by skyscrapers create another problem. The longest shadow cast by a building is measured at 3 P.M. on the winter solstice, December 21.2 At that time, the shadow is 4.4 times the height of the building on the latitude of New York City. The shadow cast by a building as high as the 1,250-foot-high Empire State Building is longer than a mile.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Harrison's 8,400-word inaugural speech was the longest ever, while his 30-day Presidency was the shortest.

Love without reason lasts the longest.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

What's the shortest time you've seen and the longest time you've seen for people who took no treatment? Three months was the shortest, she said, three years the longest. And with treatment? She got mumbly. Finally she said that the longest might not have been that much more than three years. But with treatment, the average should shift toward the longer end.

The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.