Lengths Quotes
85 quotes by 82 authors
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
— John Stuart Mill
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I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at…
— Jack Nicklaus
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The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell…
— Matt Taibbi
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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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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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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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As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
— Haruki Murakami
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Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.
— Richard Connell
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The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
— Dan Brown
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Angel... I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.' -Patch (PG 262)
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only…
— Thomas Ligotti
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It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for…
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Can you love someone you don't trust?" "Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back.…
— Daniel Abraham
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Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
— Stephen King
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I turned my face up to his. I could hardly look at him the same way. I was crying without realizing I'd started. "You made…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle…
— Suzanne Collins
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The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to…
— Stephen King
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