Long Quotes

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

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

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime.

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.