Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some take the short route. Every man is working out his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
I've known Jennifer [Salke] for so long. Before I was a writer, I did garden design, and I designed Jennifer's garden, many years ago. I've known her for a really long time. So the pitch was not really about that.
A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.
A lot of opportunities in life tend to last a short while, due to some temporary inefficiency. . . For each of us, really good investment opportunities aren't going to come along too often and won't last too long, so you've got to be ready to act and have a prepared mind.
We have done so many things that are noteworthy and an accomplishment one day after the next. The storyline should not be about bogus Russian spy stories. They should be that this president has accomplished more in the first 30 days of this presidency than people can possibly remember in a very long time.
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.
We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.
