As long as a child does not cry, it does not matter what pleases it.
From the leather of others you can cut long strips.
He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon.
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.
One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and, besides, the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one needed, in order to b...
Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to plagiarize them without much success, which led him, after long reflection (a whole summer night), ...
Although the Civil War was an apocalyptic success in the sense that it brought an end to nearly a century of struggle and broken hopes regarding the ultimate extinction of African American slavery, it also combined new freedoms, as in other major rev...
I once held a belief that life made sense, that working toward a dream would birth substance. Nothing else mattered. I soon discovered that success is as long-lasting as any of life’s novelties. We’ve all been happy with new things, only to be di...
Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for the long run is best now, and selflessness serves our interests far better than selfishness. The wider our circle of cons...
But the process should not be confused with science. When tests are used as selections devices, they're not a neutral tool; . For one thing, the tests tend to screen out - or repel - those who would upset the correlation. If a man can't get into the ...
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silenc...
When the twilight of all my evenings reaches me, after a long dark day, my complicated thoughts suffocate inside all of my uncomplicated longings. Evenings refuse to end. And the dawns that constantly swallow up my nights, always shows me an extremel...
doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,
You deserve good sperm. You’ve waited a long time.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people?
Love me less,but love me for a long time.
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.
One needs longing to live and enemies make one long for them.
