If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much heshe has changed.
Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.
Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.
As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.
Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them.
I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.
Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know
If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
It was not that long ago a bunch of researchers got on a boat and started chugging for the South Pole to find evidence of the melting glaciers and global warming, and they got stuck in the ice and it took three ice breakers and a helicopter to rescue them. Yet they still carry the day in the pop culture that global warming is happening.
We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since. . . I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.
The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.