Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

It's up to history to judge.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.

The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

Don't apologize for what you think you did wrong. Apologize for what they think you did wrong.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers; who else can really judge them?

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

Mama was a stickler on keeping your word. That's helped me to make the right decisions in so many situations. Because of that, I also think really hard before I make a decision because I know I'm going to have to see it through.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

I don't want to mess up my life. You only get one shot. I don't want to let my fans or anybody else down. So, I always think before I act. And as long as I do that, I'll be okay.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.