Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
The remembrance of a woman is longer than a tear. (Le souvenir d'une femme - Est plus long qu'une larme.)
There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.
Some simple truths are so clear to a dazzling degree that to realize them you need to think over and live for a long time
In our springtime there is no better, there is no worse. Blossoming branches burgeon as they must. Some are long, some are short. Stay upright. Stay with life.
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.
Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.
I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.
The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
