It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift

And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.
Tiger Woods

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
Donald Trump

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower