But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. Votes: 4
Sylvia PlathLong life will sometimes obscure the star of fame. Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneArt is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAy, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. Votes: 0
Charles KingsleyLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. Votes: 0
HippocratesThere is always something to celebrate, so long as life is being lived. Votes: 0
Neale Donald WalschPossessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest. Votes: 0
Bob RossI believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships. Votes: 0
Goldie HawnI believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships. Votes: 0
GoldieIf you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinWhen one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. Votes: 0
EpictetusThe long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end. Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonI promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life. Votes: 0
Sacheen Littlefeatherthe time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareDeath doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life. Votes: 0
Jeanne CalmentI'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality. Votes: 0
Tilda SwintonLife is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. Votes: 0
Patricia HighsmithNeither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonYes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising. Votes: 0
Tracy ChevalierDo not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineBut all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom. Votes: 0
Abu AbbasI long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareLife's too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzAs long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure Votes: 0
Orison Swett MardenHow do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast." Votes: 0
Harry S. TrumanLaughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts! Votes: 0
Wilferd PetersonI love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life. Votes: 0
Vik SahayOne cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowThe life of an artist is a continuous journey, the path long and never ending. Votes: 0
Justin BeckettIt's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. Votes: 0
Gregory MaguireEating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that. Votes: 0
Elsie de WolfeEvery child's life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it. Votes: 0
Marian Wright EdelmanI would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. Votes: 0
Alexander the GreatWhen I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerBe a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for Votes: 0
David Starr JordanBe a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. Votes: 0
David Starr JordanSomething unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape. Votes: 0
Mary RuefleIt often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. Votes: 0
Edmund SpenserSo much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood. Votes: 0
Gabrielle BernsteinThat is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely. Votes: 0
P. G. WodehouseLong life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroFor a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life. Votes: 0
Rose Philippine DuchesneLife doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow. Votes: 0
Deborah SmithIf you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing. Votes: 0
Paula MalcomsonBaseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time. Votes: 0
Carol TavrisLooking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle. Votes: 0
Jack PaarI've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington. Votes: 0
Arthur C. ClarkePeople can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure. Votes: 0
MenciusNobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. Votes: 0
Carl JungLearning to love yourself should not become a life-long challenge that most of us never meet. Votes: 0
Christiane NorthrupI had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me. Votes: 0
Gerald R. FordI don't see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn't interfere with your life. Votes: 0
Kathleen TurnerFights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt. Votes: 0
Robert KirkmanThroughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath. Votes: 0
Huangbo XiyunAnything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity. Votes: 0
Howell RainesIt doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. Votes: 0
Henry JamesAs long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. Votes: 0
Betty SmithLife is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghPerhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it. Votes: 0
John BanvilleBut that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonIf you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life-long act. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonAll my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go. Votes: 0
Katharine HepburnPeople always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. Votes: 0
Sarah Addison AllenEvery man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long. Votes: 0
Robert A. BurtonLaugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life. Votes: 0
Og MandinoThere are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself. Votes: 0
Jackie Joyner-KerseeNever ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. Votes: 0
MenanderA lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life. Votes: 0
Mary OliverFor a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block. Votes: 0
Mary GardenThe greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawWe have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business. Votes: 0
Charlie MungerLife is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. Votes: 0
Warren BuffettI have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember. Votes: 0
Brandon BoydEverybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does. Votes: 0
John GreenTo ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire. Votes: 0
Gary W. KellerWe live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect. Votes: 0
Daniel LibeskindSome folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. Votes: 0
Norman RockwellThe life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary? Votes: 0
Naz?m HikmetFor me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. Votes: 0
Anthony BourdainThe Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. Votes: 0
Gary LarsonLife can unfold unlimitedly as long as we have a heart of appreciation and an undefeated mind. Votes: 0
Daisaku IkedaA snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed. Votes: 0
Dieter AppeltA man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerLife is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show. Votes: 0
Nick DrakeGive life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. Votes: 0
Colum McCannI did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span. Votes: 0
Charlie MungerIt should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerEveryone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music. Votes: 0
Bjorn UlvaeusOur span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroOne must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life. Votes: 0
Madame de StaelMake your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people. Votes: 0
Al McGuireLive as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. Votes: 0
Robert SoutheyThe joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EngleI've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me. Votes: 0
Loretta LynnSo long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. Votes: 0
Giuseppe MazziniAnimators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. Votes: 0
Darren AronofskyI been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. Votes: 0
Muddy WatersThere are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them. Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerAs long as you have goals to accomplish in this life, you will not truly be complete. Votes: 0
kamar brownLife's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes. Votes: 0
Natalie BabbittPeople would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered Votes: 0
Jean IngelowYour shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long. Votes: 0
Brad PittA short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism. Votes: 0
Karel CapekHow are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly? Votes: 0
Robert FrostI sometimes feel like life is just one big test to see how long we can survive. Votes: 0
Jessica SorensenI learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be. Votes: 0
Dana ReeveLive a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing. Votes: 0
Tite KuboAs long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauLife is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. Votes: 0
Franz LisztTo be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; Votes: 0
Mark TwainIn a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time. Votes: 0
Carol ShieldsI would want to know that my daughter is going to enjoy a long, happy and healthy life. Votes: 0
Melissa Harris-PerryLife is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsGod doesnât need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. Votes: 0
Barbara KingsolverLife is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. Votes: 0
Anna QuindlenLife's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at. Votes: 0
Matthew McConaugheyThe life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did. Votes: 0
Jack VanceLong as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me. Votes: 0
RedmanSuspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it. Votes: 0
Ben MarcusI can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life. Votes: 0
John UrschelNo one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiI would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box. Votes: 0
Anne SextonThere is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight. Votes: 0
Swami PrabhavanandaTitles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana. Votes: 0
Shreya GhoshalI'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is. Votes: 0
Dhani JonesEvery man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. Votes: 0
Robert BurtonIf you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawI made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny. Votes: 0
Paula DanzigerIt doesn't matter who you fall in love with, as long as you have love in your life. Votes: 0
Laurel HollomanAs long as one accepts 'time' tacitly as such he is dreaming a drea, not living a life. Votes: 0
Wei Wu WeiSo long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger. Votes: 0
SaadiIt doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultPrayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long. Votes: 0
HerodotusNever shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself Votes: 0
Elie WieselHis life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full. Votes: 0
Robert W. ServiceI often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellI could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life. Votes: 0
Brooks RobinsonOne key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long. Votes: 0
Bill CrawfordYes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way Votes: 0
Margaret MitchellI'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed Votes: 0
Ally McCoist[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. Votes: 0
Charlotte BronteI think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. Votes: 0
Paul StrandLife will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough. Votes: 0
E. NesbitThe things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. Votes: 0
Josephine BakerMountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. Votes: 0
Paul D. BoyerNor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven. Votes: 0
John MiltonA long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. Votes: 0
Dan BuettnerThe Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeAll my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem Votes: 0
Hunter S. ThompsonPoetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it. Votes: 0
James WrightLife ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy? Votes: 0
George du MaurierI can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again. Votes: 0
Anna GodbersenTomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. Votes: 0
Walt DisneyThe Timeline of a Life being Long or Short, is Computed on the Benchmark of How You Live It... Votes: 0
Saurabh DudejaWhen you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. Votes: 0
A. C. BensonThe average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky. Votes: 0
Mike McCreadyI have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. Votes: 0
Amby BurfootLove is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage. Votes: 0
Amy AndrewsDay-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy. Votes: 0
Chelsea ManningLife has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long. Votes: 0
Ellen GlasgowEvery risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life. Votes: 0
Richard BransonWhen death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. Votes: 0
Suzanne CurchodIt is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. Votes: 0
Bryant H. McGillSirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want. Votes: 0
Herbert Beerbohm TreeLife is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoI want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I'm on this planet. Votes: 0
Madonna CicconeLong live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45 Votes: 0
Pete WentzLife is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started. Votes: 0
Stephen KingWe have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived. Votes: 0
Randy PauschIt is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well. Votes: 0
Thomas a KempisI grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there! Votes: 0
Eva LaRueLife is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up. Votes: 0
Charlie ChaplinThe tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. Votes: 0
Terri GareyAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. Votes: 0
Urs FischerThe tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. Votes: 0
William Mather LewisI don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day. Votes: 0
Elvis PresleyI go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. Votes: 0
Jane AustenThe long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab. Votes: 0
Ziggy MarleyI count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. Votes: 0
Robert BraultLife is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonI will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything. Votes: 0
Ed AsnerSo long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Votes: 0
Helen KellerSo, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. Votes: 0
George SaundersI count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultSo long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. Votes: 0
Freeman DysonEvery man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long. Votes: 0
William CongreveHuman life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity. Votes: 0
Wole SoyinkaLife will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen. Votes: 0
Oren LyonsSo long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life. Votes: 0
Ismail KadareAs I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle. Votes: 0
Jack PaarI've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it. Votes: 0
Louise Berliawsky NevelsonAs long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself. Votes: 0
Ginnifer GoodwinAs a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember. Votes: 0
Will SmithEven if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way. Votes: 0
Catherine DeneuveTips for a long life - Keep Sweet, Keep Friendly, Keep Loving, if ye would... keep Y O U N G Votes: 0
Edgar CayceI thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion. Votes: 0
Margaret ChoThis little girl's grown up by now, she said.Almost.Not quite.I wish you all a long and happy life. Votes: 0
Alice SeboldHair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life. Votes: 0
Rachel ZoePeople often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.' Votes: 0
Edward AlbeeI've loved you for as long as I can remember, and I'm going to love you for the rest of my life. Votes: 0
P. C. CastHe did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer. Votes: 0
David M. O'ConnellOne can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be. Votes: 0
Andre MalrauxMy life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so of course I want to stay as long as I can. Votes: 0
David BeckhamWhat I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life. Votes: 0
Reynolds PriceFootball is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it. Votes: 0
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