Quotes of: Long-road Keyword

ALWAYS Are you always sad? someone asked. (Always is such a long, long time.) I couldn’t say. But. If sadness was a sea, I’d drown in it. (Salty and warm, sadness is.) (Cold, too. Sometimes.) And I happen to love the sea.

Love

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

William Falconer

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're goin...

Jeff Bezos

[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is always close to zero, long-term thinking is an alien concept, and even the most massive and ambitious undertakings are moti...

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

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't l...

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. A promise, like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. A belief in each other and the possibility of love. A decision to ignore simply rise above the pain in the past. A covenant, whic...

Lucas

The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Noam Chomsky

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.

A Common Faith

I settle for a radio station that’s currently playing a Tom Waits track. That man has so much gravel in his voice that, if he coughed, you could build a road with the contents of his phlegm.

Cafe Insomniac

Ha van Isten, csakis egy szörny lehet; egy gonosz svindler, aki az emberek szívével játszik, aki azzal kísérletezik, hogy mennyi szenvedést képesek elviselni, aki eljátszadozik a vágyaikkal, hogy elkezdjenek bízni, csak azért, hogy aztán...

Cross Roads

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.

Cosmicomics

It was late afternoon. This time tomorrow he would be somewhere on a good graveled road, driving his car past things that happened to people, quicker than their happening. ("Death of a Traveling Salesman")

The Collected Stories

Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

Dutch Connection

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].

Generation A

On a pitch black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running straight as a die across the bare plain between fields of beet.

Germinal

Just because there is an obstacle in your path, that doesn’t mean you have to get off the road.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take one road, instead of another.

The Haunting of Maddy Clare

Integrity is the source of new solutions and innovations; courage is a means of halting progress down a wrong road.

The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company