All Quotes

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.
‐‐ Peter Abrahams

The London Library in Piccadilly is the best place for a sleep.
‐‐ Sophie Winkleman

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.
‐‐ Mel Odom

The Lone Star Card will make food stamp coupons obsolete.
‐‐ John Sharp

The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.
‐‐ James Wolk

The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.
‐‐ Rudolph Valentino

The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
‐‐ Bruce Cameron

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
‐‐ Ajay Naidu

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.
‐‐ Josiah Royce

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
‐‐ Geoffrey Fisher

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
‐‐ Idris Elba

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
‐‐ Margaret Spellings

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
‐‐ Timothy West

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
‐‐ Peter Agre

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

The long days are no happier than the short ones.
‐‐ Philip James Bailey

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
‐‐ Robert Menzies

The long, forensic interview really matters.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
‐‐ Daniel Handler

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.
‐‐ Tim Bishop

The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.
‐‐ James Cronin

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.
‐‐ Louis Dudek

The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.
‐‐ Roger Altman

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.
‐‐ Hawa Abdi

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
‐‐ Valerie Jarrett

The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
‐‐ Gary Kovacs

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
‐‐ Lord Acton

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

The longer and longer I played in the NFL, I kind of said, 'Well, I'm not going to go out and get a 9 to 5 job at any point soon, so what can I do?' So I started hosting radio and TV shows while I was still playing.
‐‐ Matt Willig

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.
‐‐ Justin Welby

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
‐‐ George Muller

The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.
‐‐ Jennifer Morrison