Long Ago Quotes - Page 18

• I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Thinking, Needs, Quotation Marks

  "EL Doctorow: 'I don't have a style, but the books do'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Spring, Winter, Comfort

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, p. 169, 1949.

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• If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Peace, Society, Might

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1924, Delphi Classics

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• I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!

  Anne Frank

  War, Believe, Men

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

  Robert Breault

  Aunt, Garden, Thinking

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• The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.

  Florence King

  Real, Health, Pills

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• The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.

  Shang Yang

  Wise, Stupid, Understanding

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• A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Males, Female

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• I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

  Dave Matthews

  Friendship, Old Friends, Walks

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• I don't remember a voice
  On a dark, lonesome road
  When I started this journey so long ago
  I was only just trying to outrun the noise
  There was never a question of having a choice

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Dark, Journey, Voice

  Song: The Calling, Album: The Calling

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• The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

  John Steinbeck

  Mother, Men, Giving

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

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• It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

  Eugenie Clark

  Men, Growing, Littles

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• It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.

  Bob Costas

  Eye, Names, Newcomers

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• If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

  Waris Dirie

  Animal, Hands, Water

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• I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

  Steve Forbert

  Fun, Lists, Boring

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• I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

  America Ferrera

  Want, Lasts, Young

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• Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
  We're finally on our own
  This summer I hear the drumming
  Four dead in Ohio
  Gotta get down to it
  Soldiers are gunning us down
  Should have been done long ago
  What if you knew her and
  Found her dead on the ground
  How can you run when you know

  Neil Young

  Summer, Running, Should Have

  "Ohio" (song) (1970)

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• We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Effort

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.

  Ray Davies

  Sex, Queens, Home

  Song: Victoria

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• To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Song: Long Ago, Far Away

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• If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Japan, Broken

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• If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Fun, Crazy, Insane

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• It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.

  Smiley Blanton

  Fear, Capacity, Unlimited

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• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  Randy Wayne White

  Book, Character, Way

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• Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Brave New World, Past, Technology

  Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.43, Zed Books Ltd.

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