Length Quotes
722 Length quotes by 591 unique authors
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But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime.…
— Paulo Coelho
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Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.
— Marisha Pessl
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All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need…
— Martin Heidegger
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I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept…
— Sarah Dessen
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Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at…
— Douglas Adams
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Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go…
— N.D. Wilson
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Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a…
— Michael Crichton
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THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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When I give the go ahead, go ahead," Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face.…
— Frank Beddor
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She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come out. Not often anyway, and certainly…
— Malorie Blackman
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When you are moving toward an objective," said Petrus, "it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches…
— Paulo Coelho
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She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of…
— Tanith Lee
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I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my…
— Shirley Jackson
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Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where…
— Gary Shteyngart
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
— James A. Baldwin
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When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Thank you. It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things. I'm not allowed…
— Emilie Autumn
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But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I…
— Sarah Dessen
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Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do,…
— Nicole Krauss
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Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember…
— Rick Riordan
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No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In…
— Alice Sebold
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Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes were already glowing…
— Jeaniene Frost
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As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
— Haruki Murakami
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