Long Ago Quotes - Page 24

• If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Peace, Society, Might

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1924, Delphi Classics

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• We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Yield, Competition, Liberty

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• I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

  Robert Breault

  Sunrise, Lucky, Week

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• Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Thinking, Today, Projects

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• I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Friendship, Believe, Garden

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.34, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

  Mary Jane Ward

  Snakes, Insane Person, Pits

  Mary Jane Ward (1946). “The snake pit”

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• Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Tree, Shepherds, Apollo

  Henry Van Dyke (1927). “Chosen poems”

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• Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my camera as a mirror for my subjects as well. I remember photographing a woman in her 80s for my book, Wise Women, who told me it had been a long time since anyone had really been interested in "seeing" or photographing her. When she saw the picture, she burst into tears. She saw something in the photograph, an inner beauty and soul, she felt had long ago vanished.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Wise, Photography, Book

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• If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pity, Alms, Given

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.51, Penguin

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• I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Thinking, Needs, Quotation Marks

  "EL Doctorow: 'I don't have a style, but the books do'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Spring, Winter, Comfort

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, p. 169, 1949.

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• Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
  We're finally on our own
  This summer I hear the drumming
  Four dead in Ohio
  Gotta get down to it
  Soldiers are gunning us down
  Should have been done long ago
  What if you knew her and
  Found her dead on the ground
  How can you run when you know

  Neil Young

  Summer, Running, Should Have

  "Ohio" (song) (1970)

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• We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Effort

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

  Louis L'Amour

  Wish, Done, Action

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Hanging Woman Creek”, p.77, Bantam

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• The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."

  Eberhard Arnold

  Christian, Air, Water

  Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold (2000). “Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction”, p.94, The Plough Publishing House

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• The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.163

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• In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Night, Fire

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 40

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• People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Couple, Husband

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.17, Fawcett

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• I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Soul, Accepting, Inevitable

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mind, Criticism, Attention

  "My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. January 14, 1942.

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• They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Blood, Depth

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Memories, Tales, Dear

  "Long, Long Ago" (song) (ca. 1835)

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• There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Running, Wall, Light

  Vlada Petrić, Ingmar Bergman (1981). “Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman”, Redgrave Publishing Company

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• Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

  Henry Adams

  Artist, Church, Social

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.523, Harvard University Press

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• I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

  Gordon Gould

  Running, Patents, Made

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