Longs Quotes (page 148)

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• achievement
• moments
• future

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. Zelda Fitzgerald

• look
• understanding
• evening

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and? pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know. Hans Christian Andersen

• god
• fly
• heaven

God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies. Sylvia Plath

• time
• dark times
• hand

Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between... Hunter S. Thompson

• happy moments
• girl
• girls

She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances,... Jane Austen

• world
• knowingly
• named

I longed to know the world's name. Robert Penn Warren

• list of
• hit
• speak

Let them speak as lewdly as they list of me...as long as they do not hit me, what am I the worse? Thomas More

• manly
• alone
• may

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off. Henry David Thoreau

• walking
• annoying
• walks

I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me. Fred Allen

• dead
• husband
• writing

Nell's husband has short-man syndrome. Eddie is one of those deadly dull people who is so upbeat that I suspect he would subconsciously like to go through the neighborhood, house by house, with a machine gun. He seems oblivious to the effect that his long, rambling monologues have on people - he doesn't notice the blank faces, the fingers flexing like those of people buried alive, the ocular tics. You could write down his words verbatim, show them to him, and he'd probably say, 'I know... Anne Lamott

• passion
• heart
• bear

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear. Paulo Coelho

• learning
• mistake
• enough

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

• life
• value
• long

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others. Simone de Beauvoir

• life
• calamities
• be or not to be

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; Mark Twain

• life
• life sayings
• life goes

they say life goes on long after the thrill of living John Mellencamp