The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.
I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
