Length Quotes

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This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. — Cy Twombly
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most… — Haruki Murakami
Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle,… — Sebastian Coe
Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by… — William Buckland
It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits… — Swami Vivekananda
The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a… — Ernest Starling
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. — Herbert Ward
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to… — Victor Hugo
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.… — Annie Dillard
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an… — Chrissie Wellington
Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing… — W. E. B. Du Bois
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear… — Robert Adams
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most… — Henry David Thoreau
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire… — Orison Swett Marden
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and… — Henry Ward Beecher
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as… — Samuel Crompton
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye… — Thomas Young

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