Quotes and Sayings About Long
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
-- Albert Einstein -
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.
-- Albert Einstein -
People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
-- Albert Einstein -
I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.
-- Albert Finney -
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I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.
-- Albert Gonzalez -
It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.
-- Albert J. Nock -
If they don't know the Lord, I encourage them to search for and open their hearts and their eyes. If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to heaven and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible. I want to make sure that those people out there feel the same. At the end of the day as long as I glorify him and those 45,000 people know who I represent out there every time I step out on the field, that's what it's about. It's about representing God.
-- Albert Pujols -
The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys
-- Albert Sabin -
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I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
-- Alberto ManguelSource : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.66, Vintage Canada
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With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.
-- Alberto SalazarSource : Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.
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Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we’re dreaming the world into being through the very act of witnessing it. Scientists believe that we’re only able to do this in the very small subatomic world. Shamans understand that we also dream the larger world that we experience with our senses.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
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Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.
-- Aldo Gucci -
Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run,
-- Aldo Leopold -
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
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I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.
-- Aleksandr Vasilevsky -
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As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.
-- Alessandra AmbrosioSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
-- Alex CareySource : Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.21, University of Illinois Press