#lon

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#contemplation #had #his #known #life

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. ↗

— Chet Atkins

#apprenticeship #formula #give #i #logical

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #different #different roles #essentially #form

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#content #day #dread #last #long

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

— Jane Austen

#ease #ill #letter #long #person

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. ↗

— Jane Austen

#alone #better #endearing #enough #fashion

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. ↗

— Jane Austen

#belong #complete #disclosure #disguised #does

They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#bit #defense #department #had #hits

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music. ↗

— Eric Avery

#away #got #guy #i #long

But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it. ↗

— David Axelrod

#affects #deal #debt #economy #going