Quotes of: Long-period Keyword

Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.

German

Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old.

Icelandic

As long as the clouds dolt weep, the pasture cannot laugh.

Iranian

Man longs to see that which he is afraid to see.

Japanese

A rich man's wooing need seldom be a long one.

Scottish

Put off the evil hour as long as you can.

Traditional

A boil is fine as long as it's under someone else's arm.

Yiddish

There is a German word, , which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather...

Levels of Life

He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. She was his world now, his priority, the rest of his life could wait as far as he was concerned. As long as he knew she was safe, it would all be okay.

True Fate

The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our ...

John Ortberg

You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certificates were kept in the state of Hawaii, and now, I think that it's been pretty much disclosed that they used to have a long form and now they don't have...

Jan Brewer

I have chronic - well, I like to call it late-stage Lyme disease and not chronic, because I like to think someday I'll be all the way cured. It took me a really long time to get diagnosed, and I was misdiagnosed for a long, long time. I was very ill ...

Kathleen Hanna

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as...

Rachel Cusk

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

Artie Lange

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul VI

I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

Ashton Kutcher

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

Joseph Jarman

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

Infidel

I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me.

Incarnate

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

The Long Earth

In the long run, a treadmill’s a great investment.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious