Quotes with long-standing

Quotes 1161 till 1180 of 1223.

  • Brad Delson With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
    - +
     0
  • Plato Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
    - +
     0
  • Clare Boothe Luce Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
    - +
     0
  • Andy Hertzfeld Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Ernest Hemingway Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
    - +
     0
  • Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
    - +
     0
  • Earl Nightingale You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ''acres of diamonds.''
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
    - +
     0
  • John Jay Chapman You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Wheatley You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
    - +
     0
  • Burt Shavitz You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
    - +
     0
  • Mae West You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Rabindranath Tagore You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
    - +
     0
  • Warren Buffett You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
    - +
     0
  • George Bernard Shaw You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Shirley Chisholm You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
    - +
     0
  • Ajay Devgan You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
    - +
     0
All long-standing famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 59)