When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them.

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

When we're younger we take our bodies for granted because they're top-notch. You don't always think in the long run.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.

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