He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
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?
Chuck Palahniuk
On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Chuck Palahniuk
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Any colour - so long as it's black.
Henry Ford
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
It's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it.
Janis Joplin
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one.
Elvis Presley
This is the short and the long of it.
William Shakespeare
Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher
The worst is notSo long as we can say, 'This is the worst.'
William Shakespeare
"If birds can glide for long periods of time, then… why can't I ?'
Orville Wright
You only live a short time...and you are dead a long time..
Johan Huizinga
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway
You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.
Matt Groening
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.
Ann Landers
Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.
Theodore Roosevelt
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little.
Michel de Montaigne
All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Benjamin Franklin
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
Benjamin Franklin
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carol Burnett
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. Rowling
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Samuel Butler
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. Chesterton
To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog.
German Proverb
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
Bill Clinton
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Charles F. Kettering
Why an arbitrary figure of 30 days? The US Government has long accepted it only takes one day to be exposed to Agent Orange.
John Atkinson
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
Jamaican Proverb
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
Woody Allen
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi.
Woody Allen
It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
Alexander Hamilton
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)
Pablo Neruda
I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.
Helen Keller
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Publilius Syrus
I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.
Julia Child
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Saint Jerome
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
Eric Hoffer
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
Pierre Corneille
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
William Hazlitt
The shelter will be open as long as they need it.
Jody Van Cooney
It's long been known substance abuse has a significant correlation with abuse and neglect.
Terri Jacobs
It's taken a long time to get to the actual building. There were a lot of months of frustration and anguish in the middle. I breathe a lot easier now.
Keith Gibson
In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high.
Henry David Thoreau
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein
As long as Iran advocates the use of terrorism, the U.S. arms embargo will continue.
Larry Speakes
We've come a long way. I don't want to sound braggadocio, but the team has matured so much since then.
Craig Swartout
We really need to do something in the short term while you folks figure something out for the long term.
Dan Blankenship
This is a learning experience for us, but we feel it important to develop relationships and exchange friendship between our peoples. We hope for long-term and ongoing exchanges.
Robert Free Galvan
Tsunamis are only a foot or two in height because they are so long. They only get huge when they hit shallow water and begin to back-up on themselves.
Bill Teague
I don't think you'll have to wait long. I'm not in a Hamlet-like state of indecision.
Michael Ignatieff
I was getting by, but I was running a lot of long counts — 3-0, 3-1. Then in that one inning, the fifth, they got a lot of balls, like grounders, through on me and they just kept doing it.
Joel Pineiro
It's status quo, I don't see anything that changes. It's shocking that, after six weeks, you would be happy with just letting it go for as long as it takes to get a deal.
Lise Lareau
As long as the family is interested in journalism, you're OK.
Stephen Lacy
In fact the only criticism is it's probably been going on too long. This is something I worked very hard on and it's something I'm very proud of and I make no apologies.
Shawn Murphy
I haven't seen business owners this angry in a long time.
Laura Jones
The kids are getting better and as long as they are getting better, I am happy.
Cody Keene
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
Today was another day hallmarked by scant dealing due to the long weekend on U.S. markets.
Hugo Morales
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isodore Duncan
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Henry David Thoreau
Our defense was on the field a long time. We just couldn't seem to stop them.
Aaron Dunbar
There was a barber shop that closed not too long ago. It's amazing what that's done. It's thrown us all for a loop, as busy as it's been.
Rod Grover
I drove up on the inside of him all day long.
Jimmy Spencer
Fighting against Internet piracy and infringement is a long-term mission and an uphill journey.
Yan Xiaohong
We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can. I.O., Upright Citizens Brigade and 'SNL' have enabled me to do that.
Amy Poehler
Books last a really long time if you take care of them.
Lauren Evans
We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesn't get in our way.
Sacha Guitry
All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure.
Theodore Roethke
We can sit here and watch these cars go around all day long, but he knows what they feel like. And where Greg has really come along is now Greg knows what the car needs to feel like to win.
Doug Richert
The long-term solution would be multiple Lamb Centers, not just one.
Mayor Rob Lederer
This is a long time coming. We have been working hard, both on and off the court all year. This team deserves it.
Julian Mclain
Long before the new jail is built, with the displacement of the inmates from the stockade, we are going to be at overcapacity. So, we are going to ask the board (county commissioners) to look at alternatives to incarceration.
Mike Rodriguez
I have lived here for so long, and this was the last piece of the puzzle. I really feel that I have found my place here. Some of the greatest moments of my life were while I lived here, and now I feel complete.
Tanith Belbin
In all those countries, there's a long history of bilateral discussions on IPR issues, ... So I think they will be very receptive to getting on-the-ground systems to help with this effort.
Robert Holleyman
These girls are competitive from the word go. They're very driven. A little bit of coaching goes a long way.
Karla Sempsrott
As long as you make it to the show, that's what counts.
Marcus May
There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.
Louis Armstrong
Florida is one example of how partisan politics interfere with having folks' votes being counted accurately. Americans have taken elections for granted for far too long.
Ion Sancho
I didn't think it would take long (for the freshmen to have an impact). I didn't expect it to be that big, though.
Bill Keefer
We did jump on them. That's a long bus ride and we just got after them right away.
Mat O'brien
You can fight the Nasdaq for just so long. Eventually, the principal of guilt by association is going to come into play.
Alidad Mireskandari
I think we both have confidence in our own abilities. We've been around for a long time and accomplished a lot. I think we can accomplish the most by sharing leadership. We can do that and accomplish much more than alone.
Sanford Weill
When there's no agenda and no real message what happens is you can't really have a message. You can put lipstick on a pig all you day long but it's still a pig, ... This Week.
John Boehner
I haven't played against them in a long time. If you lose you're going to have to hear from them.
Oliver Hoyte
That's something that's hurt us a lot, ... Not to make excuses, but when you don't have the guys who have worked back there all season long it's going to hurt you. Some of those guys will be back, but again, we don't know exactly when it will be. It's a case by case deal.
Mark Walker
I consider my life one long string of failures, but all of the failure has made me more grateful to be alive, more joyous in the moment and more appreciative for every day I have.
Dirk Benedict
It has very significant long-term implications if the case goes against FIFA.
Kevan Pipe
My leg is 100 percent now. It was a long road back.
Cedric Humes
If it's the shoes, we'll ride it as long as we can.
Gerald Laird
But what I like about spring snow is they don't last long.
Mike Sharp
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
Oswald Spengler
If you're on a long flight, and you're incommunicado for several hours, that's not good.
Tom Mccann
"The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually."
Kirk Douglas
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
The Lehigh Valley economy in 2005 is a lot healthier than it has been in a long time.
Kamran Afshar
This is the most expensive, worst and most complicated disaster that we've had to deal with for a long time.
Jeanne Salvatore
The problem was, the earlier vaccines didn't cause long-lasting immunity, ... Frequent boosting was required.
Paul Offit
It will be unusual not to see Coach wearing the hat, he's been wearing it so long.
Jarron Collins
It just seems like they had a formula that worked for them for a long time. They need to adapt their formula for the environment.
Cindy Shaw
We have a really long history of partnerships, and they are increasingly important. They have always been bread and butter, if you will. ... This is in many ways all about partnerships and how we fit together.
Wanda Yuhas
It seems like it was just yesterday. But it was seven years ago. It's amazing it's been that long.
Jason Mcgriff
Ultimately, it will be legal, here, but how long it takes is uncertain. This is where the market is.
Sue Schneider
That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When you face someone like that, you probably won't face someone who throws harder.
George Alexander
What they have in common is that if the reviewer did not already possess them, he would long for them most greedily.
Christopher Lehmann haupt
The UN is going to stay in Haiti for a long time. It should be much more involved in improving healthcare and education than peacekeeping.
Dan Erikson
This company has a long way to go. It is a marathon, not a sprint. To buy these bonds you have to be in it for the long haul. It is very possible they will trade down before they trade up.
Shelly Lombard
There is a long line, so I guess it runs in our blood.
Chad Salisbury
Presently, we basically depend on archived historical data to make inferences about change over a long time ... You're hostage to the limited amount of data available in the past.
Thomas Rossby
For no extra cost, in an equity fund, especially a low-cost index fund, you get currency exposure and diversification. You can get your currency diversification through your equity positions. That's the way a long-term investor would do it. Do not try to be smart about this.
Richard Ferri
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
Henry Louis Mencken
There are areas that are receding. We've just got a long way to go.
Mike Rogers
We came a long way. Was it satisfactory to everyone? Probably not.
Brigid Devries
The biggest surprise to me has been that interest rates have stayed as low as they have as long as they have.
Dean Baker
They've got a real good athletic team, they are well coached, Kelley Hall does a good job, he's been in this business for a long time.
Rick Insell
It's been true for a long time. We felt the most impact of that when the middle bracket of the baby boomers passed 40.
Michael Berry
It could actually be damaging for the people who need the help in the long term because they are confused where the aid is coming from.
Martin Broughton
The greenest track I've seen for a long time.
Josh Saladino
As long as the growth in health insurance premiums far outpaces the growth in wages, the erosion in the workplace will continue.
Larry Levitt
Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
Julian Green
We told the kids that you have to enjoy wins like this. We waited so long to beat Fort Frye that you can't take these wins for granted.
Doug Baldwin
As long as I'm dressed, let's go home.
Ward Grant
I'm not worried at all. There's a very good, diverse balance of films this summer. Long term, I'm a bit more worried.
Robert Bucksbaum
They stayed as long as they could until they figured they would be without power for a few weeks.
Matt Pierce
There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
Dennis Miller
Contractors are a good barometer and they were complaining loudly and long. Many of them said they would turn in an incomplete bid or would not bid.
James Clough
He has a long record of poking Republicans in the eye. He's so far out there. He campaigned for John Kerry. I rest my case.
Ray Mcnally
You don't have to be skinny, but just eating right and doing 15 minutes of a walk is enough to keep your body healthy for as long as you live.
Teresa Hernandez
Goes a long way to allowing us to demonstrate that many, if not most, Site Q monuments were looted from La Corona.
Marcello Canuto
It's going to be a long, long, dragged-out process. The doctors can't tell if she's ever going to be the same.
Amber Margarejo
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Alexander Alekhine
We have this long history of avant-garde work or at least nontraditional works.
Mike Plante
I'm not the sort to settle into one place for too long. I'm too much of an individualist.
Brian Montgomery
Basically, the factors are external. Whatever our policy is, things will be like this as long as we don't reduce our fuel demand continuously.
Jusuf Kalla
How long will all that take? We must get rid of the tax lien.
Leo Dobrovolny
We had a long talk. It was a little one-sided, but it went pretty well.
Ron Moschella
I think he was 100% correct. We all knew that. It wasn't a surprise. It's probably surprising he held it in that long.
Chris Widger
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge
As long as you feel something wiggling, you're doing the dance correctly.
Desiree Mcentire
Enjoy your holiday — make it a long one.
Dr. John Prescott
Our competitors are the other community banks. The lifeblood of our business is building long-term relationships.
Doug Compton
In a single moment ... he began the long chain of falsehoods that have led us to our moment of truth here today.
George Gekas
I thought for a second it was going to be a long single.
Ryan Strieby
Some days are better than others, ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
Brian Robertson
We anticipate this is going to be a long-term disaster response.
Kay Wilkins
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Kate Seredy
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