Long Run Quotes

In the long run we are all dead.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrants feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this.

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.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

People don't eat in the long run. They eat every day.

With highly civilized nations, continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes. Nevertheless the more intelligent members within the same community will succeed better in the long run than the inferior, and leave a more numerous progeny, and this is a form of natural selection.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

In the long run, Mohammed wins out. Christianity spreads primarily by conversion, Islam by conversion and reproduction.

Foreign policy is consumed with momentary crises —– often created by failing states and violent groups. But in the long run, he future is shaped by winners, not noisy losers.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

In the long run sea power will be no match for air power.

I want to clean up my handle. Get stronger. Those are the things that will help me out in the long run.

The long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

We need to learn how to organize, not just to let our anger explode. We need to have organization for the long run, not for one issue, not for one murder, but for everything coming to us in the next 20, 30 years.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

Intelligence collection has its place—no question—… But no matter how important collection is, in the short and even the long run, it just doesn’t cost very much.

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.