I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions.
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.
It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost nothing, as long as he doesn't mind hurting his credit score.
Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!
My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.
As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.
I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
