Long Quotes - Page 27

• People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.

  Brandon Stanton

  Self, Two, People

  Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York: Stories”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

  Jill Tarter

  Heart, Home, Discovery

  "Are We Alone In The Universe?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 15, 2013.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis for developing reforms, Richard Willson remedies the problem that many planners feel unqualified to challenge and change long-standing minimum parking requirements.

  Donald Shoup

  Giving, Challenges, Unqualified

  6 Copy quote

• In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched rapidly and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey. But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting for their souls to catch up with their bodies.

  Lettie Cowman

  Morning, Moving, Journey

  8 Copy quote

• I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

  Jules Shear

  Men, Woodstock, Long Time

  4 Copy quote

• Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Struggle, Fall

  "Petition Response: On Conversion Therapy". Barack Obama's statement on the petition on conversion therapy at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 8, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Creativity, Daily Tasks

  4 Copy quote

• Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a new standard in the likes of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. --changing the world and all of us for the better. I was one of those regular citizens watching when he made his first trip here after being released from prison. Amazing memories. I regret that I never met him in person. May he rest in peace

  Philip Bailey

  Mother, Determination, Memories

  FaceBook post by Philip Bailey from Dec 07, 2013

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Hands, Feet

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Jesus, Laughter

  "Sarkis, An Old Greek Shepherd Called the Madman". "Jesus, The Son of Man". Book by Kahlil Gibran, gutenberg.net.au. 1928.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Night, Men

  18 Copy quote

• The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Majority, Booty

  26 Copy quote

• Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Unique, Long Ago

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Desire, Earth

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.288, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Childhood, Age

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Doe, Spirit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.56, Oxford University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not by accident that this has not been resolved in 50 years, but I believe this is the best chance we will have for a long time for there to be a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

  Sandy Berger

  Believe, Israel, Agreement

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.

  Gene Cernan

  Essence, Space, Risk

  "Is the shuttle worth it?" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2003.

  94 Copy quote

  Show source

• Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

  David Gill

  Dream, People, Want

  5 Copy quote

• We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

  Max Brooks

  War

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.2, Broadway Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You retain your health only so long as you are willing.

  Robert Svoboda

  Willing

  8 Copy quote

• If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.

  William Eckhardt

  Running, Winning, Player

  16 Copy quote

• In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.

  William Eckhardt

  Strong, Loss, Winning

  22 Copy quote

• The market likes to lull you into the false security of high success rate techniques, which often lose disastrously in the long run. The general idea is that what works most of the time is nearly the opposite of what works in the long run.

  William Eckhardt

  Running, Opposites, Ideas

  11 Copy quote

• Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  People, Soul, Energy

  16 Copy quote