Long Quotes

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.

Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.

I couldn’t bear the road anymore. I’m sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes – I wanted to go home.

I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.

I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).

No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.

Life isn’t long enough for love and art.

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.