- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body.
- Long Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have signed for clubs, I have always spoken a long time with the CEO or with the owners, not only at United, but also at Bayern Munich and Barcelona, and I have the faith that they always support me.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020