Length Quotes

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Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths… — Richard Dawkins
Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength. — Mac Miller
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform. — Carine Roitfeld
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the… — Herman Bavinck
The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope. — Mark Jason Dominus
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the… — Desiderius Erasmus
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length… — Juvenal
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull… — Steve Albini
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time at length becomes justice. — Cynthia Ozick
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated,… — Thomas Carlyle
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into… — Thomas Carlyle
To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise… — Haim Ginott
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is… — Douglas Adams
The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height. — Leonardo da Vinci
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation… — Joseph Conrad
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the… — Alberto Manguel
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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