Long Ago Quotes - Page 4

• It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

  Lewis Thomas

  Memories, Science, Simple

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

  Warren Buffett

  Stars, Business, Loss

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2005.

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• American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

  Dave Barry

  Honesty, Business, Men

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• A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Memories, Greatness, Men

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.171, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hero, Personality, Liberty

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• I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fashion, Men, Trying

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• [Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.

  Richard Dawkins

  Law, Support, Religion

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• I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth...If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Spring, Drinking

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• We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Should Have, Facts

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Grandma, Grandparent, Doubt

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• God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Men, Wrath, World

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• Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Forgiveness, Witty

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• There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the efforts of any one physicist, but because of a flowering of many seeds of theory, most of them planted long ago.

  Steven Weinberg

  Fall, Science, Ideas

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• Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Birth

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• Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Attitude, Bridges, Acting

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• I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Giving, Feelings

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Pincus-Witten, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (1986). “Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986”, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Incorporated

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• The general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reprobation, but that every man may elect or reprobate himself by his own free will, which he has (say they) to do good or evil ... [All these things are] forged by their own brains, and polished by the finest of their wits, when yet in very deed they are but the rotten heresies of ... Pelagius, long ago confuted by Augustine.

  John Knox

  Men, Evil, Brain

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• Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

  Janet Morris

  Soul, Embodiment, Free Will

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• In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago. It is really at this point that the pleasure of research begins, when one is, so to speak, alone with nature and no longer worries about human opinions, views and demands. To put it in a way that is more learned than clear: the philological aspect drops out and only the philosophical remains.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Nature, Philosophical, Hard Work

  "Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher". Book by Davis Baird, R.I.G. Hughes and Alfred Nordmann, 1998.

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• Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

  Richard Bach

  Adventure, Aviation, Flight

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.200, Dell

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• If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Decision, Coaching

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• I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Work, Life Is Short, Best Effort

  "A Writer's Notebook (1941)". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

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• Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.

  Frank Waters

  Meaningful, Time, Past

  Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

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• Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Ocean, Cutting

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• Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time on the primary difficulties, which appear now as severe as in the first centuries which noticed them. We would have the experience of assured phenomena, which would serve as principles for a solid reasoning; truth would not be so deeply sunken; nature would have taken off most of her envelopes; one would see the marvels she contains in all her individuals.

  Marin Mersenne

  Nature, Truth, Father

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