#long

They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#came #different #drove #had #laura

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#any #day #end #end of the day #even

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#attention #been #capture #drew #find

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success. ↗

— Roy Wilkins

#disengagement #easy #flight #hard #jumps

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. ↗

— George Will

#among #away #gain #get #inflict

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ↗

— Bern Williams

#books #had #instant #long #replay

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#action #animate #any #basic #basic human rights

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#capable #confront #destruction #effort #greatest

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' ↗

— Robin Williams

#bat #give #give me #got #huddled

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#cannot #capacity #confined #essential #gift