People Long Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
— David Niven
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Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where…
— Rajneesh
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is…
— Arron Wood
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The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time,…
— Rolf Potts
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Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave…
— Lenny Bruce
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Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended.…
— Kofi Annan
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
— Sinclair Lewis
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It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human…
— Louis de Bernieres
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were…
— R A Salvatore
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People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to…
— Gloria Whelan
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Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should…
— Kate Morton
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An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead…
— Daniel Handler
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I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!
— Charles M. Schulz
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People long dead were talked about as familiarly as though they had only just left the room.
— Richard Perceval Graves
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People long for conversation that is simple, but not trivial, meaning that is deep, but not inaccessible, love that binds, but values freedom.
— JT Squier
Who Wrote These People Long Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 People Long Quotes as follows: