Quotes of: Longs Keyword

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

The Fault in Our Stars

How long did it take to become a gracious person? One who could accept help and give thanks without being resentful of it?

The Gravity of Birds

She was a tall woman with unfashionable hips and a long chestnut braid singing down her back.

God Help the Child

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

The Glass Castle

Funny, isn’t it? I’ve known every love possible, but as the years stretched out, the love I longed for the most is the one I shared with my sister.

Goddess

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

The Golden Age of Science Fiction

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

The Great Gatsby

but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.

Guardian of the Gate

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

Goldfinger

the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories

Guitar: An American Life

Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

The Gargoyle

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

The Gargoyle

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won’t show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.

GWG

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

The Horse and His Boy

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

Heart's Blood

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

The Hobbit

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

House Made of Dawn

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

From Here to Eternity

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

Having Faith