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.

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.

One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.

When you’re young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You’ll live longer.

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

I’m pushing ahead on my own – you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

The world is no longer against us.

The term ‘cost shifting,’ as I use it, refers to those items in a university’s budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting – the kitchen and all...

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences...

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

They must therefore not spoil Alexander’s undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all...

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don’t want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I’ve no idea what’s going on. I’m disconnected. I’m totally disengaged.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.

The longer you work here, diverse it gets.

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

I’m a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things – it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

Sometimes when you’re editing a movie, you have the thing that you don’t expect – which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

One of our most difficult realizations was that – in the course of two years – a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no...

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

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.