A Quotes
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“As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.”
“As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?”
“As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more; the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.”
“As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.”
Source: Thriving on Vague Objectives: A Dilbert Collection
“As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.”
“As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.”
Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...
“As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.”
“As long as there are countries with borders in this world, nationalism would remain the highest virtue.”
Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.”
Source: The Long Tomorrow
“As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.”
“As long as there are fuses, no walls are safe. As long as every wall is threatened, the world can happen. Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“As long as there are games to play its not over”
“As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.”
“As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection -- the protection of a weapon in his home.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986
“As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.”
“As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on a world beyond our own. Besides being one of America’s greatest explorers, Neil carried himself with a grace and humility that was an example to us all. When President Kennedy challenged the nation to send a human to the moon, Neil Armstrong accepted without reservation. As we enter this next era of space exploration, we do so standing on the shoulders of Neil Armstrong.”
“as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for any individual
upon this earth (or
anywhere else
they might
escape to).
all you can do
is maybe grab
ten lucky minutes
here
or maybe an hour
there.
something
is working toward you
right now, and
I mean you
and nobody but
you.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.”
“As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.”
“As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.”
“As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.”
“As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.”
“As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.”
“As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.”
“As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.”
“As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.”
“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.”
“As long as there are people in exile, there will be people who want to get back to their native soil.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?”
“As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.”
“As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.”
“As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.”
“As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.”
“As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.”
Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.”
“As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.”
Source: The Social Contract: & Discourses
“As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace”
“As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”
Source: Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
“As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.”
“As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“As long as there are stars in the sky, I will love you.”
Source: The Sweetness of Forgetting
“As long as there are still interesting stories and still interesting people that we want to meet, I can keep it going. But, we all have to be invested. If the room starts getting bored or I start getting restless, then we'll either have to change something in the show or maybe end it.”
“As long as there are teenage girls, there will be boy bands. It's a question of how long it takes them to get their music together to come out.”
“As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.”
“As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!”
“As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.”
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
“As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.”
“As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!”
“As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!”
“As long as there have been humans, we have searched for our place in the Cosmos. In the childhood of our species (when our ancestors gazed a little idly at the stars), among the Ionian scientists of ancient Greece, and in our own age, we have been transfixed by this question: Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost between two spiral arms in the outskirts of a galaxy which is a member of a sparse cluster of galaxies, tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. This perspective is a courageous continuation of our penchant for constructing and testing mental models of the skies; the Sun as a red-hot stone, the stars as celestial flame, the Galaxy as the backbone of night.
Since Aristarchus, every step in our quest has moved us farther from center stage in the cosmic drama. There has not been much time to assimilate these new findings. The discoveries of Shapley and Hubble were made within the lifetimes of many people still alive today. There are those who secretly deplore these great discoveries, who consider every step a demotion, who in their heart of hearts still pine for a universe whose center, focus and fulcrum is the Earth. But if we are to deal with the Cosmos we must first understand it, even if our hopes for some unearned preferential status are, in the process, contravened. Understanding where we live is an essential precondition for improving the neighborhood. Knowing what other neighborhoods are like also helps. If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
We embarked on our cosmic voyage with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each generation asked anew with undiminished wonder: What are the stars? Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”
Source: Cosmos