I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the long run, a short cut seldom is.”
“In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.”
“In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.”
“In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.”
“In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.”
“In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.”
“In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.”
“In the long run, everything is a toaster.”
“In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.”
Source: Good as Gold
“In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.”
Source: Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
“In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.”
“In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's a question of how much pain and suffering America has to endure in the meantime.”
“In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.”
“In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.”
“In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.”
“In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.”
“In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.”
“In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.”
Source: Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and
“In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.”
Source: The Lacuna
“In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.”
“In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.”
“In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it.”
“In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.”
“In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most--for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.”
“In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.”
“In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.”
“In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.”
“In the long run, the cream always rises and the crap always sinks.”
“In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.”
“In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom
“In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern.”
“In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.”
Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
“In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.”
“In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.”
Source: On Character: Essays
“In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it.”
“In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it. But know that, five years from now, as fans or prospective employers are looking over your published pages, no one will care that this story sucks because the publisher moved the deadline up or because the editor made you work an android cow into the story. All they will care about is what they see in front of them, and they will hold you responsible for it, no one else.”
“In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.”
“In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.”
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
“In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.”
Source: Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.”
Source: The Trigger
“In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.”
“In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.”
“In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.”
Source: Remarks on the slavery question: in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
Source: You learn by living
“In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.”
Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches
“In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.”