#longest

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#boyhood #decades #last #life #like

The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#been #ever #her #here #i

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#awareness #because #completely #down #everything

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul. ↗

— Charles Handy

#call #companies #excellence #give #growth

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father. ↗

— Janet Reno

#boy #each #father #his #longest

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. ↗

— Mary Garden

#aviation #considered #dangerous #early #endurance

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#appear #come #dead #ends #historians

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#job #longest #never #started #takes

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#gymnastics #half #longest #minute #pretty

Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#floor #longest #lot #more #run