Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.
I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.
When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.
The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.
I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term...
Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
