Quotes of: Longs Keyword

Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.

Alarms and Discursions

...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

An Abundance of Katherines

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

You must read to lead. Reading feeds. It opens our souls to a long line of counselors.

Am I Called?: The Summons to Pastoral Ministry

Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

The Ambassadors

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

The Autobiography of My Mother

A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black..

Antiquity

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

after the quake

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

The Humans

We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.

The Here and Now

She's clearly gone too long without male companionship if any brute who walked her way made her sit up and take notice.

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Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.

Imperial Spain: 1469-1716

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

As I Lay Dying

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

As I Lay Dying

It's this place. Whatever darkness came to the island, it's here to stay. Stick around long enough and it gets inside your skin, into your cells, like an infection.

Island of the Forbidden

Los días se afanan por encontrarte, las noches te buscan en el desespero del deseo, y yo te vivo en bruto, desde esta ignorancia mía de poder perderte.

I've Loved You So Long

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

I Can't Stay Long

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

Invisible Monsters

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.

Invisible Monsters

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. I have no native tongue.

Invisible Monsters