My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well it's cheaper and you get more feet.
In fact technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
Dreams will get you nowhere a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
You know if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
My buildings will be my legacy they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams we can play together all night.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world.
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
There is a vast world of work out there in this country where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
In this age which believes that there is a short cut to everything the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is in the long run the easiest.
Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.
I am very abnormal But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
I don't believe in happy endings but I do believe in happy travels because ultimately you die at a very young age or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing life.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
I long as does every human being to be at home wherever I find myself.
Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game you really do train to play. It tops up your ability like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
As long as any adult thinks that he like the parents and teachers of old can become introspective invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him he is lost.
But look I was born in 1956 the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and by and large people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job or a roof over their head or the care that they need when they come home.
As I approach my 88th birthday it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears among other appurtenances aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
If I had no sense of humor I would long ago have committed suicide.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
I've been in this business for a long time at my age I've just turned 30 and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well my kids are happy and healthy in schools we've both been able to buy a house for our parents respectively in the places they live.
I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning.
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty then another for the next thirty years.
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
Men of age object too much consult too long adventure too little repent too soon and seldom drive business home to the full period but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
From as long as literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns word jokes I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
For my confirmation I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927 I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
A moment comes which comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
I like long walks especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five I was awake with him all night long watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming it is the stronger when it comes and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks they are always locking three.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
And I think women have come a very very long way but they have a long way to go.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
So many people try to grow up too fast and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
Politics it seems to me for years or all too long has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
He's going to be around a long long time if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English but with not one recognizable syllable.
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering fearing doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Personally I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding I'd be upset.
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
I am of a healthy long lived race and our minds improve with age.
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.