Quotes of: Long-distance Keyword

It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink.

The Expats

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Belief... was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept in careful repair.

Fortress of Ice

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

Farewell, My Lovely

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Flaubert's Parrot

Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt." "How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.

Forever

Long after you go down and the vessel rusts apart your bones sunken buried in the ocean floor I wonder if you miss people?

Freakboy

...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...

A Familiar Rain

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

First Among Sequels

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

The Fault in Our Stars

How long did it take to become a gracious person? One who could accept help and give thanks without being resentful of it?

The Gravity of Birds

She was a tall woman with unfashionable hips and a long chestnut braid singing down her back.

God Help the Child

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

The Glass Castle

Funny, isn’t it? I’ve known every love possible, but as the years stretched out, the love I longed for the most is the one I shared with my sister.

Goddess

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

The Golden Age of Science Fiction

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

The Great Gatsby

but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.

Guardian of the Gate

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

Goldfinger

the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories

Guitar: An American Life

Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

The Gargoyle