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

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Woodrow Wilson

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie Chaplin

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Rudyard Kipling

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
Jack Nicholson

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Chanakya

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
Spike Milligan

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert Schweitzer

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
Joe Biden

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk

They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
Bud Abbott

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
Bette Midler

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
Richard Branson

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher