"Long" Quotes . Top 25 Short Quotes About "Long"

"Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath."

--- A. G. Mohan

#Deep Breathing #Long #Focus

"I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. I tried the raw food vegan diet. And I tried the calorie restriction diet, which is the idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time. Whether or not you want to, of course, is the idea."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Meat #Calories #Courses

"In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Stimulus #Might #Ears

"News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Newspapers #Might #Long

"If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Manage #Long #Boots

"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Fear #Goes On #May

"If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Long Book #Long

"Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss"

--- A. S. Byatt

#Purple #Lovers #Secret Places

"I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book."

--- A. S. W. Rosenbach

#Stealing #Book #Journey

"The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'"

--- A. Whitney Brown

#Thinking #Ritual #Known

"Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing."

--- A. Whitney Brown

#Book #Lists #Long

"There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing."

--- A. Whitney Brown

#People #Book #Stupid

"A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Thinking #Months #Long

"People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs."

--- A.C. Grayling

#People #Personal Beliefs #Failing

"I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding."

--- A.M. Homes

#Thinking #Book #Five Years

"Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost."

--- A.S.A. Harrison

#Shadow #Long Shadows #Long

"It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone."

--- Aaliyah

#Memories #Long #Want

"It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you."

--- Aaliyah

#Long #Stills #Without You

"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning."

--- Aaron Copland

#Music #Long #Spirit

"A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination."

--- Aaron Copland

#Made #Long #Instant

"The Planned Parenthood 7" project is an example of us putting our noses to the grindstone on and trying to make a little difference. Working on that was my way of handling my own emotions about Donald Trump. I was talking about politics for so long, I just kind of ran out of juice on that."

--- Aaron Dessner

#Parenthood #Emotion #Long

"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain."

--- Aaron Eckhart

#Villain #Batman Movie #Long

"Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it."

--- Aaron Feuerstein

#Term #Long #Long Term

"Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes."

--- Aaron Klein

#Attacking #Long #Schemes

"Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you."

--- Aaron Koblin

#Mediums #Interesting #Long

25 "Long" Quotes