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Quotes About Long run

In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned.
~ Eliot Spitzer
I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
What is known as the Gymnasium to-day is a positive insult to the Greek institution. Our system of education entirely loses sight of the fact that, in the long run, a healthy mind can exist only in a healthy body. This statement applies with few exceptions, particularly to the broad masses of the nation.
~ Adolf Hitler
'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, shape public perceptions, it becomes popular in the first place only if it addresses preexisting hopes, fears, and fascinations.
~ Virginia Postrel
In a certain way, longevity is its own kind of success. While we would like to be in the position of those bands that are secure in ways that maybe we're not, we kind of feel like we're in a better position. We're bitter for short periods of time, but in the long run, we think we won out.
~ Ron Mael
It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug.
~ John Hunter
Celibacy has few pleasures. I know, but marriage has many pains. And harems are not always what they're cracked up to be. Rarely in the long run are they worth the cost and endless bother... And if marriage has many pains, polygamous marriage multiplies those pains to an unforeseeable extent with the commotion generating from squabbling wives and contending offspring.
~ Joseph Heller
I believe in the devil, in the Powers of Darkness, Lawford, as firmly as I believe he and they are powerless – in the long run. They – what shall we say? - have surrendered their intrinsicality. You can just go through evil, as you can go through a sewer, and come out on the other side. A loathsome process too.
~ Walter de La Mare
I expect that in the long run, when we get right down to the fundamental stuff of the universe, we'll find that there's nothing there at all—just nothings moving no-place through no-time. On the day that that happens, I'll have God and you will not—otherwise there'll be no difference between us.
~ James Blish
In the long run, people have more to fear from governments than from terrorists. Terrorists come and go, but power-hungry politicians will always be with us.
~ James Bovard
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
~ James Russell Lowell
Totalitarianism of a certain kind, as imagined by Aldous Huxley or George Orwell, is therefore impossible. What the totalitarian project will always produce will be a kind of rigidity and inefficiency which may contribute in the long run to its defeat. We need to remember however the voices from Auschwitz and Gulag Archipelago which tell us just how long that long run is.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
I don't know why it was canceled, but 'Mancuso, FBI,' it should have had a good long run, but it wasn't picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.
~ Robert Loggia
With "unlimited selection," "unfiltered customer reviews," and "ultimate personalization," the three unmatchable and innate advantages of the Internet, Bezos was confident that no physical bookstores, no matter how big they were then, could be serious competitors in the long run.
~ Ram Charan
Alternatives to oil are coming up. In the long run, it is not going to be as bleak as people are predicting but surely consumption of fuel by automobile sector is going to go down.
~ Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
In the long run Gary will almost certainly talk, but Johnny Marinville has never been less concerned with the long run in his whole life.
~ Richard Bachman
In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.
~ Nicholas Deak
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
~ Kate Seredy
In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The usefulness of an elder will depend in the long run more on his character than on his gifts and knowledge.
~ David Dickson
something that was called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary.
~ David Lagercrantz
I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.
~ Rowan Williams
In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.
~ Bill Capodagli