#long

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#clear #finite #going #long #manageable

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#damage #disorder #encourage #encouraging #gained

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#common #earth #everybody #fate #going

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

#active #any #back #became #because

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#american #cause #each #every #gods

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#desperate #had #i #longest #often

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #before #london #long #metropolis

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night. ↗

— Liam Gallagher

#another #came #chair #flying #gonna

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#carried #consular #designed #green #identification

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#approaching #arriving #departing #ever #farther