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Length Quotes

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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.
Authors on Length Quotes: John Dryden Evan Esar Mehmet Murat Ildan George Herbert John C. Maxwell Aeschylus D. L. Hughley Thomas Carlyle John Stuart Mill Avicenna Frank Darabont David Walliams Ruth Handler Robin Skelton Mary Russell Mitford Yvon Chouinard Jason O'Mara Cynthia Ozick Marcel Proust Euclid Seneca the Younger Matt Dunn Willie Garson Marisha Pessl Charles Spurgeon J. K. Rowling Philibert Joseph Roux Barack Obama Thomas Cogswell Upham Julia Margaret Cameron Andrew Scott Nicolaus Copernicus Demetri Martin
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

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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

7.
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
Cy Twombly

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

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The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.
John C. Maxwell

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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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True prayer is measured by weight, not by length
Charles Spurgeon

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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

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I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Julia Margaret Cameron

21.
Length is usually intensity. Not time.
Thomas Pynchon

22.
With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.
D. L. Hughley

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The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.
Michael Jackson

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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

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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.
Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.
George Mercer Dawson

29.
It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
Ruth Handler

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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

32.
An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.
Jef Raskin

33.
Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.
Rabindranath Tagore

34.
It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
Thomas A. Edison

35.
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

36.
The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
Harold Ramis

37.
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
Gabrielle Zevin

38.
Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman

39.
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

40.
Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.
Evan Esar

41.
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
Charles Caleb Colton

42.
Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.
Trevor Dunn

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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

45.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Robin Skelton

46.
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

47.
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

48.
Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.
Andrew Scott

49.
The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.
Christophe Agou

50.
I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions.
Olivia Palermo