I Quotes
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“In the long run, you have to have patience and integrity and a plan. You can't compromise your vision. I'm a bit of a control freak, brutal when it comes to my art because I believe it's the best way of doing it, for me. My stubbornness has given us the chance to play in some amazing places that most people never would have been allowed to play in. If I don't put a value on my work, then nobody else is going to.”
“In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.”
Source: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
“In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.”
“In the long scheme of things," she says, "we are but temporary inhabitants of this world, dirt and ash, recycled stardust."
"But in death, we become memory," Damien says. "In grief, we're made permanent.”
“In the long second before everyone absorbs what just happened, I see the angel rolling his eyes heavenward, like a teenager in the presence of overwhelming lameness. Some people just have no sense of gratitude.”
Source: Angelfall
“In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!”
“In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.”
“In the long term, profit without loss is considered as selfishness.”
“In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.”
“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”
“In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health circumstances. The time will come when, whatever illness you may have, for your body type and health history, there will 'be an app for that' to keep you on your best path to wellness.”
“In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.”
“In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.”
“In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not insistent on continuing growth and a throw away society.”
“In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.”
“In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom”
“In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.”
“In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people like [Al-Qaida leader Osama] bin Laden are able to recruit suiciders, because if you don't have hope, you're attracted to an ideology which says, it's OK to kill people and kill yourself.”
“In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.”
“In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.”
“In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.”
“In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward.”
“In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2
“In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.”
“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”
Source: Past and Present
“In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And after we did it nothing really happened, but then 4-5 years later when there was a rap-rock emergence, we were already over it. We could have made Bring the Noise part 2, Bring the Noise part 3 - but like I said we're a METAL band, we didn't want to do that.”
“In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.”
Source: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner
“In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.”
Source: Utilitarianism
“In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.”
“In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.”
“In the longer run, I happen to think that Russia really has no choice but to become gradually more associated with the Euro-Atlantic community. Because if it isn't, then it's going to find itself essentially facing China all by itself, facing the Euro-Atlantic community all by itself.”
“In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace, it will lose its inherent suspicion of the outside world and begin to develop along the lines of what has recently been happening in Thailand and Malaysia.”
“In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.”
“In the looking, I found the cities within me.”
Source: Maximum city: Bombay lost and found
“In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life, the harmony and continual interpenetration of the two spheres of life - communion with God and the work on earth.”
Source: The Lord's Prayer
“In the Lord's discourse on spiritual nourishment, we hear Him says: "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life." (John 6:27). He then continued by talking about the true bread from Heaven the bread of God, and the bread of life. (John 6:32-35). Here He appeals to the soul for its nourishment and our thoughts to the spiritual way so as not to occupy our minds with the body and its needs.”
“In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.”
“In the Lord's service the path is not always easy... But in serving Him, we discover that His hand is truly over us.”
“In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.”
Source: The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads
“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)”
“In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.”
Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott
“In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.”
“In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.”
“In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.”
Source: Brilliants
“In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.”
“In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve.”
“In the loudest moments of life, we miss the signal.
But in silence… the path reveals itself.
Some doors open when the world goes still.”
“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.”
Source: Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life
“In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen
“In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.”