Long Quotes

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

Whether it’s good talk or bad talk about me, as long as your talking and making me the center of your world, I win.

Soon after you’re dead – we’re not sure how long – but not long, you’ll be united with the most ecstatic love you’ve ever known.

And so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery.

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.