Length Quotes
722 Length quotes by 591 unique authors
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After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from…
— Tom Platz
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their…
— John Milton
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His four year contract renewal: As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won't be offered the same length contract.
— Unknown Author
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit…
— Harry Vardon
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To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with…
— Philip Kapleau
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You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.
— Esther Hicks
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Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
— Seneca the Younger
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Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
— Plutarch
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The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His…
— Samuel Adams
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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
— Lord Byron
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You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
— Al McGuire
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
— Agnes Repplier
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Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at…
— Mark Twain
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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
— Tom Brokaw
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which…
— Galileo Galilei
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all…
— Immanuel Kant
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The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
— John Lyly
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,…
— Hugh Miller
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I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course,…
— Paul Newman
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I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
— Thomas Jefferson
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