Length Quotes

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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length — Robert Frost
There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether… — Samuel Beckett
For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. — Haruki Murakami
We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth. — Evan Esar
At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before — Herman Melville
You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of… — Jodi Picoult
Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to… — J D Salinger
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any… — Shirley Jackson
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your… — Virginia Woolf
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and… — Daphne du Maurier
It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it! — Rachel Vincent
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as… — Daniel Webster
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something… — Robert Wright
Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. Thatâ€™s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a… — Stephen King
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective… — Victor Hugo
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing… — Edith Wharton
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly… — Terry Pratchett
For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is… — Carlos Castaneda
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the… — Viktor E. Frankl

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