Long runs Quotes · Page 2

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

— Alan Perlis

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

— H. L. Mencken

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

— Rollo May

I suspect victims; they win in the long run.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

— Kurt Vonnegut

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

— George W. Bush

In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

— Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which…

— James Russell Lowell

To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

— Dalai Lama

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

— Richard Benjamin

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

— Daphne Oz

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

— Felix Dennis

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes…

— Bertrand Russell

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

— C. S. Lewis

Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and…

— Roy Baumeister

In the long run all love is paid by love, Though undervalued by the hosts of earth; The great eternal Government above…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others.…

— Jay Park

If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might…

— Dalai Lama

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my…

— Israel Horovitz

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in…

— James Anthony Froude

Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action…

— Colin Robinson

Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in…

— Adam Smith

I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And…

— Larry Diamond

And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could…

— Howard A. Tullman

When we sit thoughtfully pondering in a quiet place and the Spirit speaks to us, there will come into our hearts and…

— Ardeth Kapp

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism:…

— Denis Waitley

Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful,…

— Karl Hess

I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the previous days and times, we've been involved, not exclusively, but largely, in the process of individual survival: How do I…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

— Swami Vivekananda

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

— Bill Squires

In the long run, a short cut seldom is.

— Malcolm Forbes

Laziness means more work in the long run.

— C. S. Lewis

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

— Bertrand Russell

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

— Epictetus

Don't look for shortcuts, because they'll only hurt you in the long run.

— Kathryn Budig

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

— Joseph Wood Krutch