Long Quotes (page 161)

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• moments
• want
• any

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. Laura Lippman

• bed
• die
• good

Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough to know how it works. I'm sorry you crossed the line, though." Jake's momentary optimism had passed, and he felt tired and despairing. He would have liked a good bed in a whorehouse and a nice night's sleep. "I never seen no line, Gus," he said. "I was just trying to get to Kansas without getting scalped. Larry McMurtry

• vision
• destiny
• manly

The course of a man's destiny can seem sharply altered by a sudden illumination. But illumination is no more than the Spirit's sudden vision of a road that is long prepared. Gradually I learned grammar. I practiced syntax. My feelings were awakened. Then a poem suddenly blazed in my heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• life
• manly
• man

So long as man is man, variety will still be the flavor of life. Lin Yutang

• brother
• time
• father

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared. Graham Greene

• rabbit
• thou
• both

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us. Ernest Hemingway

• chairs
• been
• longs

I sank into a chair and mopped the frontal bone. Not for many a long day had I been in such a doodah P. G. Wodehouse

• people
• believe
• different

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them. George Orwell

• running
• men
• hitting

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• thoughts
• night
• sky

I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar. Haruki Murakami

• thinking
• reading
• sometimes

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley Andy Warhol

• believe
• philosophy
• she

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• one word
• words
• pain

On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens

• wallpaper
• look
• this is me

Looking around his hotel room not long before expiring: "This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. Oscar Wilde

• scientific
• time
• best

In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the exploration of space. The time was long past when one nation could seem more glorious than another by hurling some heavy object into nothingness. Kurt Vonnegut