Length Quotes

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right… — Aristotle
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on… — David Attenborough
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have… — Diane Ackerman
Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high… — Martha Beck
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm… — Robert Benchley
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. — Robert Benchley
I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently… — Cyrano de Bergerac
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood… — Mary McLeod Bethune
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? — Aeschylus
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. — Christian Nestell Bovee
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. — Albert Camus
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. — Thomas Carlyle
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. — Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life,… — Thomas Carlyle
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. — Lewis Carroll
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. — Winston Churchill
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the… — Cleveland Amory
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — Charles Darwin
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at… — Margaret Halsey
In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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