Long Run Quotes

539 Long Run quotes by 422 unique authors

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. — Elwyn Brooks White
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. — Elwyn Brooks White
The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at… — Norbert Wiener
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. — Carter G. Woodson
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth. — Fareed Zakaria
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run. — Francis Collins
For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult… — Evgeny Morozov
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the… — Mark Twain
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of… — Carl Sagan
Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be… — Terry Pratchett
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will… — C.S. Lewis
If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run — E. M. Forster
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. — Sheldon B. Kopp
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense… — Hunter S. Thompson
Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do… — Gary Chapman
It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important. — Michael Crichton
In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies. — Paulo Coelho
... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all — Frederick Buechner
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. — Anne Frank
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure. — Daniel Dennett
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to… — Sarah Vowell
We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and… — Ronald Reagan
...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run. — Wendelin Van Draanen
In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct.… — Michael Connelly
I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but… — Jorge Luis Borges

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