Quotes of: Long-period Keyword

Our destiny is aligned with our heart's innermost longing, a longing embedded within our soul before birth. This longing is a unique pattern or configuration reminiscent of the constellations in the night sky. When we express (press out) our unique c...

Running Into Myself

Do you know how long God took to destroy the Tower of Babel, folks? Seven minutes. Do you know how long the Lord God took to destroy Babylon and Nineveh? Seven minutes. There’s more wickedness in one block in New York City than there was in a squar...

Manhattan Transfer

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and lon...

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church som...

Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you underst...

Ellen G. White

What is true of the natural qualities of the soul is preeminently true of faith. So long as we are quietly at rest amid favorable and undisturbed surroundings, faith sleeps as an undeveloped sinew within us. But when we are pushed out from all these ...

F.B. Meyer

Susannah: Were you going to say goodbye? Tristan? How long will you be gone? Tristan: Not long. A few months. Susannah: I can make it better for you. Tristan: No. Susannah: If we'd had a child or if I were pregnant, would you still be going? Tristan:...

Legends of the Fall

As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating the interrelations of organisms and their environments, as long as anatomists desire a broad comparative basi...

William King Gregory

I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Chronicles of Urban Nomads

Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home

As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Anna Karenina

Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.

Rapture

- I'll be better tomorrow. - No you won't. But that's okay...I'll wait. - For how long? - How long will I wait? Take forever and multiply it by infinity. And then I'll wait some more.

The Space in Between

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish