Quotes of: Longs Keyword

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Great Expectations

He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff, staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky.

The Golem and the Jinni

But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was a hollowness at the heart of it that-I knew-made her sad.

The Goldfinch

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

Green Mars

Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....

Good Morning, Midnight

Take a good long look at . It’s all ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’. There is no ‘me’, ‘I’ or ‘mine’ anywhere.

God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name

No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don't begin you can't get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.

Graceling

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

The Heretic's Apprentice

Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by.

The Hobbit

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Handle with Care

As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed.

Homo Faber

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

Halfway to the Grave

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.

The Haunting of Hill House

I’ve watched you for a very long time now. And in this time, I’ve come to discover just as I first suspected. We are perfect for one another.

Hold My Hand

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

How to Build a House

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

The Book of Unknown Americans

He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical questions.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes