Length Quotes

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

A line is length without breadth.

Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

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.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

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

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

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.

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

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.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

...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.

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

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.

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

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

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

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

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

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

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

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.

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.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

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

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

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

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

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

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

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

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

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

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

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.

I have no history but the length of my bones.