Long Quotes

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.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

The phrase ‘off with the crack of the bat’, while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Life has now taught me that love for things,

Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go.

Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.