Quotes 541 till 560 of 1404.
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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
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If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
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If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
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If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
Source: Saint Joan (1924) -
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
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In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
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In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
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In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
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In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
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