Most failures are one-time costs. Most regrets are recurring costs. The pain of inaction stings longer than the pain of incorrect action.

The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.

Sometimes greatness is the result of a transcendent, peak performance. But often, greatness is simply the result of a good performance repeated and sustained much longer than usual.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don’t collect them.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

In Los Angeles, sometimes it’s hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I...

Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey,like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality ofour society. Sadly, it’s an environment where blood lines no longerhold.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist,...

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you’re no longer a champion.

We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than...

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

Today might be the best chance you have to take action. The longer you wait, the more deeply embedded you get in your current lifestyle. Your habits solidify. Your beliefs harden. You get comfortable. It...

I’ve been a live performer longer than I’ve been a television performer. For me, live is where it’s at.

I think it’s common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Somewhere along the line, a concert became a variety show. It was no longer enough for four dudes to play together in front of some guitar amps. Costume changes, an army of dancers, and Broadway...

My mother is my teacherHer words make me richerI thank you oh my motherMay you grow and live longer!

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they’d like to is because they can’t afford to go without their salaries any longer.

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn’t believe the sound. I said, ‘See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.’

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

I’m living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

I’m looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

I am no longer able to be anonymous.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed...

I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the...

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That’s true with people as well as things.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I’m no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they’re a little more existential or cosmic.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

There’s something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there’s as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite for. You can tell more complex stories; you can create more...

Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments

Your government is no longer mine.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I’m no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

The premise of ‘The Originals’ are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have...

When people ask me where I am from I never say, ‘Serbia.’ I always say, ‘I come from a country that no longer exists.’

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

The fact is, I’ve been releasing records longer than I’ve been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it’s not the king any more.