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Long Time Quotes (page 16)

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of. J. D. Salinger
Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?"Dream: "There isn't one."Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was."Delirium and Dream, in Sandman #43: "Brief Lives: 3 Neil Gaiman
Gertrude Stein quote: "twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years..."
twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time. Gertrude Stein
He didn’t always tell his father when it happened, because the old man’s face turned mottled blue over his doublet, and unless Will got in first, he would send a runner round all the estates, and the threshing would stop while grousing, reluctant men straggled back for their pikes and swords and mail shirts, taking a long time about it, waiting for Buccleuch the Younger to come up, furious on his sweating horse, and tell them curtly to get back to the fields. Dorothy Dunnett
George's feathers are ruffled. It's been a long time since last he forgot and let himself get up steam like this...How humiliating! The silly enthusiastic old prof, rambling on, disregarding the clock, and the class sighing to itself, 'He's off again!' Just for a moment, George hates them, hates their brute basic indifference, as they drain quickly out of the room. Once again, the diamond has been offered publicly for a nickel, and they have turned from it with a shrug and a grin, thinking... Christopher Isherwood
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature."
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very..."
I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them. Laurell K. Hamilton
The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since last I wept. George R. R. Martin
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Ever is a long time."
Ever is a long time. Cormac McCarthy
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised. Yukio Mishima
And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself. Truman Capote
Douglas Adams quote: "Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere,..."
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth. Douglas Adams
Milan Kundera quote: "Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the..."
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing. Milan Kundera
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."My mother didn't love me." So what."My husband won't ball me. So what."I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget. Andy Warhol
Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that... Andrew Jackson

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