Quotes about Long
We're too flawed and too challenged by history, circumstance, and chemistry to hoard grace for long.
- Beth Moore
For even the vice which by the force of habit and long continuance has become a second nature, had its origin in the will.
- St. Augustine
Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.
- Herman Melville
I wonder, Flask, whether the world is anchored anywhere; if she is, she swings with an uncommon long cable, though.
- Herman Melville
Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense.
- Herman Melville
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." ? Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Malcolm X
Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous.
- Margaret Atwood
What would that be like - to long, to yearn for someone who is right there before your eyes, day in and day out?
- Margaret Atwood
The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Mrs. Hackit declines cream; she has so long abstained from it with an eye to the weekly butter-money, that abstinence, wedded to habit, has begotten aversion.
- George Eliot