Length Quotes
722 Length quotes by 591 unique authors
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I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that…
— Omar Khayyam
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Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and…
— Martina Navratilova
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I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published
— Caroline B. Cooney
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Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social…
— A J Muste
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One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge…
— Daniel Tammet
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Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.
— Marco Arment
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The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.
— Christophe Agou
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Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.
— Craig Charles
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Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the…
— Mary Alice
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It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
— Ruth Handler
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I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car…
— Emerson Fittipaldi
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It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the…
— David Benatar
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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.
— Alan Loy McGinnis
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Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.
— Trevor Dunn
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An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.
— Jef Raskin
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Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a…
— Thomas Chalmers
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I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
— Martial
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
— Alexander Pope
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Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing.…
— Larry McMurtry
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At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
— William Wordsworth
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
— Joseph Addison
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The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.
— Unknown Author
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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason…
— Aristotle
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