Haul Quotes:

I never saw a U-Haul behind a hearse.

- Billy Graham

topic: Saws, U Haul, Behinds, Haul

Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m., minimal human contact. That's living the dream.

- Mat Johnson

source: "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

topic: Dream, Country, Sleep, Trucking, Haul

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

- Arne Duncan

topic: Teaching, Thinking, Long, Prestigious, Long Haul

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

- Lou Rawls

topic: Space, Long, Soul, Long Haul, Haul

I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

- Victoria Clark

topic: Careers, Voice, Long, Long Haul, Haul

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

- Lisa Snowdon

topic: Travel, Journey, Light, Long Haul, Haul

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

- Stewart Udall

topic: Life, Business, Long, Long Haul, Accountants

I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache. I want to see inside planes too. I want to watch the wind and catch birds in my fist.

- Jenny Downham

topic: Climbing, Wind, Bird, Haul

If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.

- Monica Dickens

topic: Wise, Horse, Feet, Inverted, Wheelbarrows

These CEOs, man ... If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.

- Wanda Sykes

topic: Wall, Cutting, Past, Wall Street Journal, Haul

When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency – the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.

- Parker J. Palmer

topic: Mean, Long, Vision, Long Haul, Haul

Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change.

- Paul Rogat Loeb

topic: Believe, Men, Fire, Long Haul, Survived

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.

- Richard Helms

topic: Book, Years, Two, Haul

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

- Will Carleton

topic: Fall, Boys, White, Fall Back, Haul

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.8, Penguin

topic: Jobs, Dark, Artist, Haul

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

- Steve Almond

source: Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.32, Algonquin Books

topic: Beautiful, Halloween, Night, Inspirational Halloween, Chocolate Bars

Bush explained his strategy for transfer of power. It's a two part plan. Part one: clean out his desk. Part two: rent a U-Haul.

- David Letterman

topic: Two, Strategy, Clean, Haul, U Haul

However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: "Joy in the Morning". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1947.

topic: Girl, Men, Choices, Haul

It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest. It used to be that people would be proud of the fact that they were middle class. You'd have your church and buy a house and you had a car and everything else. Now, it's really, really tough. Everybody has financial issues except for the one percent.

- Michael Douglas

topic: Success, Class, Issues, Haul

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.216, e-artnow

topic: Philosophy, Men, Family And Friends, Phylosophy, Haul

You can't do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul.

- Masaaki Imai

topic: Long, Kaizen, Results, Long Haul, Lean Manufacturing

I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click

- Nick Lachey

topic: Stupid, Years, Two, Rough Patches, Haul

You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have.

- Denzel Washington

topic: Blessed, Dollars, U Haul, Haul

Small breasts are best for the long haul.

- Norman Rush

source: Norman Rush (2014). “Mortals”, p.19, Granta Books

topic: Long, Breasts, Haul

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

- David Leavitt

topic: Passion, Tired, Sleep, Haul, Wraps

As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.

- Joyce Maynard

topic: Lying, Writing, Simple, Humbling Experiences, Haul

Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

- Rob Brydon

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Heart, Long, Waiting, Long Haul, Haul

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

- Justin Kirk

topic: Long, People, Missing, Haul

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

- Ouida

topic: Women, Suffering, Crafts, Haul

[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Two, Weight, Ass, Haul

The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.

- Barack Obama

source: "President Obama's speech on NSA surveillance reforms - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2014.

topic: Cyber Attacks, Nsa, Long, Intelligence Community, Long Haul

What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Party, Thinking, Long, Long Haul, Commander In Chief

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse,

- Denzel Washington

topic: Behinds, Commencement Speech, Haul, U Haul

Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.

- Claudia Rankine

source: Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.29, Macmillan

topic: Memories, Stupid, Optimistic, Haul

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

- Brock Yates

topic: Long, Junk, Might, Truckers, Contractor

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

- Louise Erdrich

topic: Regret, Body, Spirit, Haul

Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where the boss lets them have powder snow days off. And almost forty feet of snow falls every winter thats a lot of days off. A lot of doing what you moved here to do. Most major ski resorts are now so big that regardles of what kind ofjob you have in a city there's probably a job almost exactly like yours in a ski rsort like this. So quit your job and rent that U-haul trailer now so next winter this can be you. Not you just sitting there watching this and wishing that this was you.

- Warren Miller

topic: Jobs, Smart, Fall, Snow Falling, Quitting Your Job

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

- Tom Peters

topic: Motivation, Work, Numbers, Long Haul, Haul

No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Dream, Determination, Motivation, Long Haul, Haul

Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer.

- Jason Jordan

topic: Long, Answers, Management, Salespeople, Long Haul

It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

topic: Christian, Men, Blessing, God Help, Barbarity

History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.

- George Weigel

source: George Weigel (2005). “The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God”, p.30, Gracewing Publishing

topic: Art, Men, Expression, Individuals And Society, Long Haul

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

- Zhu Rongji

topic: Long, Hong Kong, Honest, Long Haul, Haul

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.

- Billie Jean King

topic: Sports, Years, Long, Long Haul, Haul

Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nice, Unnecessary Things, Haul

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

- Alexander Haig

topic: Country, Recovery, Years, Devastated, Long Haul

She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.

- Colum McCann

source: Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Grief, Long, Poison, Haul

But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts,snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS, the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipopsticks all akimbo, the foli ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase.

- Steve Almond

topic: Beautiful, Halloween, Night, Twinkling, Chocolate Bars

It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says Hey, you moving? Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign.

- Bill Engvall

topic: Moving, Wife, House, Driveway, Haul

For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!

- Bear Grylls

topic: Moving, Keys, Training, Haul