1.
I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
Avicenna
I would rather have a full life of brevity than a lengthy one of meagerness.
2.
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
George S. Patton
3.
A line is length without breadth.
Euclid
4.
Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.
Mac Miller
5.
It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
Ruskin Bond
6.
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
Cy Twombly
7.
The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
R. Kent Hughes
8.
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
Richard M. Nixon
9.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
Nicolaus Copernicus
10.
The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.
John C. Maxwell
11.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
John Ashbery
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I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.
Matthew Carter
14.
...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.
Patrick Süskind
15.
I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
David Walliams
16.
Allegories drawn to great length will always break.
Samuel Johnson
17.
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
Martin Freeman
18.
The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.
Richard Francis Burton
19.
The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.
Henry Ford
20.
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Julia Margaret Cameron
22.
With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.
D. L. Hughley
24.
I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.
Michael Jackson
25.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
John Stuart Mill
26.
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.
William Hogarth
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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
Arthur Henderson
28.
It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
Thomas A. Edison
29.
There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.
Janusz Kaminski
30.
Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.
George Mercer Dawson
31.
It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
Ruth Handler
32.
How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.
Rohinton Mistry
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt
34.
An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.
Jef Raskin
35.
Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.
Garrison Keillor
37.
Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.
Evan Esar
38.
The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
Harold Ramis
39.
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
Gabrielle Zevin
40.
Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
41.
Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
Harry Shearer
42.
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Aeschylus
43.
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
Ovid
44.
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
Charles Caleb Colton
45.
Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.
Trevor Dunn
46.
To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
Frank Darabont
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So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.
Yvon Chouinard
49.
I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.
Loretta Young
50.
To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.
Percy Williams Bridgman