Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run,… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
I believe investors should invest for the long run, so I don't buy and sell. I usually maintain the classic index of… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a… — Paul McCulley Copy Share Image
In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We see them [animals] as the Ice Age is ending and we know that actually in the long run, they're not going… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school]… In the long run, a child's emotional… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
That's the problem with the financial sector. Banks and the financial sector live in the short run, not the long run. In… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them... Really, in the long run, it's a… — Brian Harvey Copy Share Image
Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They… — Lou Krieger Copy Share Image
The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Nobody likes paying tolls. It's difficult to explain the concept of dynamic tolling, where the price varies to maintain the flow of… — Robert James Thomson Copy Share Image
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
In China, if they open the markets, it will force local companies to compete with international players, and the local companies will… — Stan Shih Copy Share Image
I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a… — Michael Davies Copy Share Image
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with.… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities… — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
![“We see them [animals] as the Ice Age is ending and we know that actually in the long run, they're not going to make it. And there's something beautiful about that, beautifully sad. The way the characters are woven together in the film adds to the emotion because they need each other. The message…” quote by John Leguizamo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe7/john-leguizamo-3025_add_we-see-them-animals-as-the-ice-age-is-en_2054393.jpg)
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![“Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.” quote by Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f1/charles-bukowski-73_delicate_homosexuals-are-delicate-and-bad-poetry_2952094.jpg)