233 Quotes About Long-ago

Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them.

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions (anger, jealousy, etc) to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.

Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?