Top 1200 Long-Lasting Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy.

I think it's long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time ago.

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.

The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling the Earth until the sun turns into a red giant about 5 billion years from now.

Dusty Rhodes play good-man gimmick. He party with me long, long time in the Florida.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.

By harnessing our teammates' unique skills and passion for giving, our professional networks and partnerships, and our financial resources, we will inspire the dreamers and doers of tomorrow and drive positive, lasting change in our communities across the globe.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights.

We became one of those bands that could be around forever like Slayer. We can go on as long as we want to, as long as we have fun.

It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Being innovative in your philantropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on 'land for peace' and compliance with international legitimacy and resolutions.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way. ... Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.

I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.

'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.

I want to try to have fun as long as I can and play football at a high level. I do not know how long that will go on.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person-the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments-is the true measure of lasting greatness.

Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.

The work being done by Linklaters to help organizations understand keys to success in the development sector serves as an important international affairs issue and crucial element in how all of us work to support service provision in impoverished communities in a lasting and effective way.

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

In terms of threshold, as long as it's based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it's really happening.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.