Long Ago Quotes - Page 21

• Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Ink, Found

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• Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

  Bayard Rustin

  Fighting, Gay, Thinking

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• They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

  Gregory Corso

  Moving, Fall, Mountain

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• It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

  Steven Pressfield

  Race, Air, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.37, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.

  James Dean

  Heart, People, Soul

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

  Bob Schieffer

  Football, Games, Super Bowl

  "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 7, 2010.

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• Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one thing is sure - any man who covers his face and packs a gun is a legitimate target for any decent citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Men, Guy

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• The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Eye, Events

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

  Damon Runyon

  Life, Gambling, Religion

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• All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

  Timothy Findley

  Dark, Nurse, Attendance

  Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada

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• I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

  Etta James

  Song, Way, I've Learned

  Etta James, David Ritz (2003). “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story”, p.264, Da Capo Press

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• I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Errors, Religion, Conclusion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.184, Vintage

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• Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Life Lesson, Heart

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• I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

  John Fogerty

  Light, Ideas, Shining

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• If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

  Horatio Nelson

  Running, Should Have, House

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.353

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• In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Character, Numbers, Limits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Peace, Wall

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Pain, Serenity, Soul

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• What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

  Erica Jong

  Country, Believe, Charm

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us.

  John Banville

  Thinking, Law, Sky

  John Banville (2014). “The Book of Evidence: Picador Classic”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Political

  Tony Blair (2010). “A Journey”, p.28, Random House

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• Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Giving, Joy, Philanthropy

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• The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Keys, Contentment, Asks

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

  Antonin Artaud

  Death, One Day, Consciousness

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• I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.

  Ray Stata

  Business, Creativity, Technology

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