Quotes about Long After

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. Votes: 4

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days. Votes: 4

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. Votes: 4

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. Votes: 4

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone. Votes: 4

I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published. Votes: 4

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins. Votes: 4

Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane. Votes: 4

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. Votes: 4

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten. Votes: 3

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. Votes: 3

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward. Votes: 3

Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten. Votes: 3

they say life goes on long after the thrill of living Votes: 3

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone. Votes: 3

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up. Votes: 3

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh. Votes: 3

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead. Votes: 3

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all. Votes: 3

I'm a gym rat; I love my hour-long afternoon sessions with my trainer. Votes: 3

I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone. Votes: 3

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact. Votes: 3

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. Votes: 3

When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. Votes: 3

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy. Votes: 3

The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out. Votes: 3

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. Votes: 3

You might be a redneck if you watch cartoons long after your kids get bored. Votes: 3

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley. Votes: 3

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing. Votes: 3

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone. Votes: 3

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone. Votes: 3

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.... Votes: 3

Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over. Votes: 3

The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten. Votes: 3

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah. Votes: 3

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. Votes: 3

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. Votes: 3

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to. Votes: 3

A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over. Votes: 3

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script. Votes: 3

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. Votes: 3

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place. Votes: 3

You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone. Votes: 3

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory. Votes: 3

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves. Votes: 3

I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion. Votes: 3

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. Votes: 3

People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten. Votes: 3

Pave the path. Inspire. Make sure you are missed by the people who matter long after you have gone. Votes: 3

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends. Votes: 3

He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended. Votes: 3

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. Votes: 3

Make a journey in such a way that it becomes the dream of others even long after you have gone! Votes: 3

It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run. Votes: 3

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped. Votes: 3

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. Votes: 3

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. Votes: 3

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us"“to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them. Votes: 3

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing. Votes: 3

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself. Votes: 3

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed. Votes: 3

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished Votes: 3

My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory. Votes: 3

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded. Votes: 3

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead Votes: 3

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone. Votes: 3

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should. Votes: 3

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. Votes: 3

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted. Votes: 3

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit. Votes: 3

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost. Votes: 3

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young. Votes: 3

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives. Votes: 3

Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you. Votes: 3

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused. Votes: 3

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone. Votes: 3

... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts. Votes: 3

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out. Votes: 3

Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone. Votes: 3

.....the light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand." Votes: 3

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater. Votes: 3

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore. Votes: 3

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away. Votes: 3

...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ... Votes: 3

Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you. Votes: 3

A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown. Votes: 3

My heart was oaken before you set it on fire. It will continue to smolder, long after the flame that ignited it has gone. Votes: 3

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. Votes: 3

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop. Votes: 3

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. Votes: 3

In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of the stimulus which is responsible for the inflammatory reaction. Votes: 3

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't. Votes: 3

The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared. Votes: 3

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling Votes: 3

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after Votes: 3

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak. Votes: 3

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point. Votes: 3

Our society puts more weight on success through acquisition of temporal things, but God requires us to long after those things that have an eternal value. Votes: 3

The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums. Votes: 3

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. Votes: 3

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it. Votes: 3

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually. Votes: 3

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Votes: 3

At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars. Votes: 3

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs. Votes: 3

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently. Votes: 3

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place. Votes: 3

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves. Votes: 3

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone. Votes: 3

I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish. Votes: 3

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense. Votes: 3

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. Votes: 3

After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward. Votes: 3

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned. Votes: 3

Iraq and Afghanistan will, over time, become stable. But the War on Terror will continue long after Iraq and Afghanistan have had success in standing up their own governments. Votes: 3

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed. Votes: 3

Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one. Votes: 3

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop. Votes: 3

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone. Votes: 3

I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled. Votes: 3

Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone. Votes: 3

I'm proud of most of the stuff I've put out and I hope my kids will look at it long after I'm gone and go, "hey, Daddy was cool once!" Votes: 3

The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys. Votes: 3

Well, why did you kill Jeremiah? And don't bother feeding me some story about how you just happened to wander along after he spontaneously died. I know you did this. Votes: 3

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows). Votes: 3

My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet. Votes: 3

With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long after their secrets have been revealed. Votes: 3

we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive. Votes: 3

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. Votes: 3

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared. Votes: 3

What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone. Votes: 3

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced. Votes: 3

Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone Votes: 3

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world. Votes: 3

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster. Votes: 3

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it. Votes: 3

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves. Votes: 3

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior. Votes: 3

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again. Votes: 3

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone. Votes: 3

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over. Votes: 3

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian. Votes: 3

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away! Votes: 3

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!" Votes: 3

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet. Votes: 3

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. Votes: 3

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. Votes: 3

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. Votes: 3

I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously, Votes: 3

It used to be that you could have fun with interviews with the foreign press, knowing that nothing you said would make it back to any voters until long after the election was over, if ever. Votes: 3

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal. Votes: 3

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year. Votes: 3

She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed. Votes: 3

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study. Votes: 3

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me. Votes: 3

Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much. Votes: 3

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. Votes: 3

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone. Votes: 3

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' Votes: 3

The chorus of "Jack and Diane" is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life. Votes: 3

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit. Votes: 3

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. Votes: 3

Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food. Votes: 3

It's interesting to work with Emma [Watson] so quickly after Harry Potter. When we shot this movie, it wasn't that long after Harry Potter was finished, and it's knowing that's a big transition in her life. She's a very talented young woman. Votes: 3

Every time we are obedient to the words of the prophets and apostles we reap great blessings. We receive more blessings than we can understand at the time, and we continue to receive blessings long after our initial decision to be obedient. Votes: 3

Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughing-stock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams are gone. That's the power of songs. Votes: 3

I think the archaic idea is actually winner take all, because the principle of "one person, one vote" is a principle that was introduced as a fundamental principle in American law in 1962, long after states had moved to "one person, one vote." Votes: 3

Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest. Votes: 3

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge. Votes: 3

I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do. Votes: 3

Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend. Votes: 3

Not long after my mom died, my dad pretty much kicked me out of the house. He never said, Get out of my house,but instead, I came home one night to find all my clothes scattered all over our front lawn. Votes: 3

Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it. Votes: 3

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom. Votes: 3

That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after. Votes: 3

Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done. Votes: 3

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered. Votes: 3

Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising. Votes: 3

Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters. Votes: 3

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone. Votes: 3

Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes. Votes: 3

He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on. Votes: 3

I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year. It will be a blast Votes: 3

The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete. Votes: 3

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. Votes: 3

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Votes: 3

Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much of our structure as the result of culture than it is to think of men anatomically like ourselves slowly developing culture. Votes: 3

Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much of our structure as the result of culture than it is to think of men anatomically like ourselves slowly developing culture. Votes: 3

Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes. Votes: 3

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint. Votes: 3

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint. Votes: 3

It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some. Votes: 3

Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done. Votes: 3

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. Votes: 3

it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away. Votes: 3

love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very dayA love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive! Votes: 3

Here's the life lesson I've learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they've forgotten the hero. Votes: 3

For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper. Votes: 3

It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course. Votes: 3

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out. Votes: 3

Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. Votes: 3

I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet. Votes: 3

love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day... A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive! Votes: 3

I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone. Votes: 3

In my own career, I have always tried to treat my colleagues with respect and kindness, whoever they are, and am proud to have developed and mentored the careers of many excellent young scientists who will be tackling tomorrow's biological problems long after I have left the scene. Votes: 3

Grace was pouring out everywhere, from hidden sounds, into Els's damaged auditory cortex. And all that secret, worldwide composition said the same thing: listen closer, listen smaller, listen lighter, to any noise at all, and hear what the world will still sound like, long after your concert ends. Votes: 3

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements. Votes: 3

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way. Votes: 3

We are not defined by our things. It´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- It´s not where we live- but how we live that defines us. It´s our actions that are remembered long after we are gone. Votes: 3

Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable. Votes: 3

I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions Votes: 3

It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again. Votes: 3

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two. Votes: 2

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Votes: 2

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them. Votes: 2

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens. Votes: 2

Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me. Votes: 2

After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is. Votes: 2

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. Votes: 2

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. Votes: 2

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not. Votes: 2

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper. Votes: 2

It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.' Votes: 2

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone Votes: 0

Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth. Votes: 0

Prosperity last long for one who acts after proper consideration. Votes: 0

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy. Votes: 0

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence. Votes: 0

After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take? Votes: 0

After struggling for a long time I started to live out my dreams. Votes: 0

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes. Votes: 0

Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else. Votes: 0

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement. Votes: 0

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us. Votes: 0

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price. Votes: 0

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough. Votes: 0

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. Votes: 0

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Votes: 0

You can't beat a nice glass of Chardonnay after a really long, hard day. Votes: 0

Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured...it was like coming home. Votes: 0

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood Votes: 0

Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers. Votes: 0

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. Votes: 0

I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated. Votes: 0

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after. Votes: 0

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. Votes: 0

All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time. Votes: 0

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice. Votes: 0

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure. Votes: 0

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult. Votes: 0

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket. Votes: 0

One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run. Votes: 0

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. Votes: 0

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together. Votes: 0

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect. Votes: 0

After being compared to Jay Leno for so long, you don't think of yourself in that way. Votes: 0

After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day. Votes: 0

I like my coffee the way I like my women: after waiting impatiently in a long line. Votes: 0

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs. Votes: 0

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady. Votes: 0

I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it. Votes: 0

After all, you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived. Votes: 0

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. Votes: 0

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. Votes: 0

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing. Votes: 0

I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took Votes: 0

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost. Votes: 0

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. Votes: 0

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. Votes: 0

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience. Votes: 0

Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow. Votes: 0

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause.... "That I do still love you. Votes: 0

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. Votes: 0

The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough. Votes: 0

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone. Votes: 0

The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left. Votes: 0

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember! Votes: 0

It's almost jarring when you go to play a different character, after playing someone for so long. I love it! Votes: 0

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. Votes: 0

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are. Votes: 0

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done. Votes: 0

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school. Votes: 0

After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again. Votes: 0

Long after you go downand the vessel rusts apartyour bones sunkenburied in the ocean floorI wonder if you miss people~? Votes: 0

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school. Votes: 0

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. Votes: 0

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism. Votes: 0

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to. Votes: 0

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. Votes: 0

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me. Votes: 0

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things. Votes: 0

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend? Votes: 0

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone. Votes: 0

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen Votes: 0

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height. Votes: 0

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen. Votes: 0

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. Votes: 0

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. Votes: 0

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside. Votes: 0

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten. Votes: 0

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy. Votes: 0

And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure. Votes: 0

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong. Votes: 0

I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after. Votes: 0

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes. Votes: 0

After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway. Votes: 0

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. Votes: 0

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada. Votes: 0

Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work. Votes: 0

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long. Votes: 0

After so long being thin, it was terrifying being heavier. But I am a naturally curvy Hispanic girl. I don't deprive myself. Votes: 0

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning. Votes: 0

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death. Votes: 0

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else's house. Votes: 0

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain. Votes: 0

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience Votes: 0

Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting. Votes: 0

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do. Votes: 0

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school. Votes: 0

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again Votes: 0

Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool. Votes: 0

The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution. Votes: 0

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice. Votes: 0

It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good. Votes: 0

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals. Votes: 0

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy. Votes: 0

Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years. Votes: 0

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously) Votes: 0

During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games. Votes: 0

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image. Votes: 0

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good. Votes: 0

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over. Votes: 0

After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work Votes: 0

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime? Votes: 0

Check out the helmet hair on Randy Moss, babe! He looks like some freakish anti-Mr. T after a long evening sleeping through 'Aida.' Votes: 0

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. Votes: 0

I'm looking for something to laugh over. After long enough, your body just needs to keep the hydration. You can't keep crying it out. Votes: 0

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it. Votes: 0

After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration. Votes: 0

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other Votes: 0

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds. Votes: 0

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him Votes: 0

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals. Votes: 0

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone. Votes: 0

Truth is, I don't mind getting a black eye or broken arm for a girl as long as she's there to kiss it after. Votes: 0

After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I'm one of the top Canadian ladies. Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program. Votes: 0

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him. Votes: 0

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long. Votes: 0

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!" Votes: 0

I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country. Votes: 0

the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while. Votes: 0

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory. Votes: 0

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair. Votes: 0

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. Votes: 0

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years. Votes: 0

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run. Votes: 0

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day. Votes: 0

I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too. Votes: 0

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. Votes: 0

I listen'd, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I bore,Long after it was heard no more. Votes: 0

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good. Votes: 0

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve. Votes: 0

General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place. Votes: 0

Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined. Votes: 0

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. Votes: 0

For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it. Votes: 0

We played in the Senior Bowl, ... I got MVP out of jamming his (expletive). It basically started there, with a long week of getting after each other. Votes: 0

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body. Votes: 0

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists. Votes: 0

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside. Votes: 0

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand Votes: 0

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs. Votes: 0

After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning. Votes: 0

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other. Votes: 0

After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold. Votes: 0

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against. Votes: 0

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming. Votes: 0

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for. Votes: 0

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. Votes: 0

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off. Votes: 0

The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year. Votes: 0

The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare. Votes: 0

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead. Votes: 0

I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home. Votes: 0

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in. Votes: 0

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird. Votes: 0

The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity. Votes: 0

Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not-- Votes: 0

My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days. Votes: 0

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything. Votes: 0

A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection. Votes: 0

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me. Votes: 0

Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me tell you, sweetheart, if that was possession, I'm selling my soul. Votes: 0

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead. Votes: 0

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage. Votes: 0

After a long section of the glass playing, you'll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There'll be a lot of mystery about the sound, I think. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally walks away from a frayed, worn-out relationship. Votes: 0

I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside. Votes: 0

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund. Votes: 0

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. Votes: 0

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you. Votes: 0

We don't have enough Latinos on TV just getting cast in supporting roles; the idea of having your own show named after you seemed like such a long shot. Votes: 0

People called me Slim and Daddy Long Legs. My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me! Votes: 0

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! Votes: 0

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us. Votes: 0

People called me 'Slim' and 'Daddy Long Legs.' My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me! Votes: 0

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents. Votes: 0