Long Quotes

I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.