Famous quotes containing the words long and/or lasting:
“Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)