Length Quotes · Page 11

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

— Avicenna

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

— Ruth Handler

“The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.

— Matt Dunn

You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth

— Billy Graham

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

— Arabella Weir

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

— Haruki Murakami

Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at…

— Thomas Hood

The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in…

— Cleve Jones

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would…

— William Cartwright

I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into…

— Kathleen Hanna

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality…

— Anonymous

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on…

— Martina Navratilova

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States,…

— Bennett Cerf

Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; Past the…

— Wang Wei

As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to…

— Kara Swisher

One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also…

— Angela Merkel

I actually will always stop and watch [Friends episodes], not for the whole thing, but usually because I've forgotten a lot of…

— Jennifer Aniston

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it…

— Bob Edwards

If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went.…

— Helen Fielding

Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses,…

— Jane Austen

I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and…

— Justine Larbalestier

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation…

— Jane Austen

While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and…

— Rebecca Mead

There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

— Hall Caine

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

— George S. Patton

“The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.

— Darynda Jones

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

— Harrison Ford

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

— Merce Cunningham

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.

— John Dryden

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

— Plutarch

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these…

— Barack Obama

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

— Harry Shearer

Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.

— Rumi

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the…

— Marisha Pessl