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

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.