For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich
For a long time our son was a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a teenager who notices girls - we're faced with something else altogether.
‐‐ Claire Scovell LaZebnik
For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved.
‐‐ Peter Singer
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
‐‐ Sally Ride
For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'
‐‐ Rodney King
For a long time, television said, 'We won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it.' Then they said, 'OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars. The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars.' So, it's a bit of a curve, that.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
‐‐ Felix Adler
For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.
‐‐ Jeffrey Toobin
For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.
‐‐ Charles Roven
For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.
‐‐ Nancy Lublin
For a long time, the Indonesian government ignored 'The Act of Killing,' hoping it would go away.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer
For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.
‐‐ Dave Attell
For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not true. While they did send me the script, I don't think I was ever a serious consideration to direct it. I'm sure they probably sent it to 20 others as well.
‐‐ Terry Zwigoff
For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.
‐‐ Andrew Gould
For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
For a long while, I was really against Twitter. I mean, who cares if I'm in an airport or had broccoli for dinner?
‐‐ Shantel VanSanten
For a longer nail look, I get a gel manicure. They grow with the gel polish, and then I keep going until I want my natural, short nails back with the regular polish.
‐‐ Edy Ganem
For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan
For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'
‐‐ Robert Osborne
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.
‐‐ Jason Isbell
For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.
‐‐ Jon Scieszka
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
‐‐ Peter Jackson
For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.
‐‐ Christopher Poole
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
‐‐ Eric Jerome Dickey
For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.
‐‐ Jenji Kohan
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.
‐‐ Rob Bell
For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.
‐‐ Abbey Clancy
For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.
‐‐ Lynn Jurich
For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.
‐‐ Robert Pinsky
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
‐‐ Gabrielle Aplin
For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
‐‐ Octavio Paz
For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
‐‐ Rafe Spall
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes
For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic.
‐‐ Stephen Bennett
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
‐‐ Plato
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
‐‐ Queen Victoria
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
‐‐ Ron Fournier
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
‐‐ George Santayana
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno
For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.
‐‐ Frank Rich
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
‐‐ Hesiod
For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.
‐‐ Robert Preston
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
‐‐ Ken Blanchard
For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
‐‐ Anna Held
For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel
For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.
‐‐ Katy Perry