1,682 Quotes About Long

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.

As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.