Long Quotes - Page 13

• Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Memories, Long Ago, Tales

  "Long, Long Ago" (song) (ca. 1835)

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• Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Form

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Doe, May

  Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss (1991). “Kant: Political Writings”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.

  Mooji

  Real, Realizing, Persons

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• No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

  Horace Greeley

  Kitchen, Resources, Should

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• It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

  Frank Zappa

  Stupidity, Would Be, Debt

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Jumping, Littles, Arise

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.

  Peter McWilliams

  Anger, Emotional, Advice

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• Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

  Sam Abell

  Distance, Believe, Ambition

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• Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Honor

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .

  Ingmar Bergman

  Seven Months, Amusement, Complicated

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• I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

  Damien Hirst

  Song, Sex, Medicine

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• The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

  Ben Shahn

  Moving, Journey, Self

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

  John Cleese

  Giving, Mind, Originality

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• In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Jobs, Unemployment

  "Daschle optimistic on stimulus bill". www.cnn.com. December 3, 2001.

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• So I've seen life as one long learning process.

  Richard Branson

  Life, Process, Airline

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com.

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• Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.

  Cennino Cennini

  Perseverance, Art, Mind

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• Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.

  Harry Kemp

  Lonely, Long Ago, Sky

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• In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Heart, Decision

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!

  Tibullus

  Night, Thee, Enjoy

  Tibullus, Gerard Van der Gucht (1720). “The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies”, p.199

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• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  Sean William Scott

  Doors, Elbows, May

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• When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Lasts, Company, New Products

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• If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

  Ben Kingsley

  Choices, Wish, Directors

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• One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Standards Set, Innovation

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