There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.
I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
They're still advertising the added health-giving advantages of vitamins in your daily diet, although it has long since been shown that you'd be better off eating Smarties.
I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long as I progressed.
I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.
I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.
You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'
