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.

Old dogs lives longer by learning new tricks

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‘Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.’

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

I can no longer walk in the street. That’s over.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It’s painful, and it’s the last resort for nations.

An old dog lives longer when it learns new tricks

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

There’s a certain clubbiness to the idea that you’re an ex-president. You’re no longer a politician. You’re a statesman.

We’ve changed in the sense that we flipped – and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

It’s good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

Laughter made you live better and longer.

I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.

When you’re no longer ill, and everyone’s gotten over the fact that you’ve had cancer, that core of steel doesn’t go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.

An old dog lives longer by learning new tricks

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can’t do that much longer.

It’s a strange one – I’ve been away for 20 years now; I’ve been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

There’s no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

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.