Length Quotes

• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Land, Tyrants, Thrones

  "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.

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• How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Book, Writing, Long

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• Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Believe, Bears, Illness

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• I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

  John Ashbery

  Looks, Feels

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• I have no history but the length of my bones.

  Robin Skelton

  History, Bones

  Robin Skelton (1971). “The hunting dark”, McClelland and Stewart

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Study

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• The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

  Harold Ramis

  Cutting, Rooms, Optimal

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• There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

  Ben Stiller

  Hollywood, Use, Film

  FaceBook post by Ben Stiller from Dec 02, 2012

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• It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

  Big Jim Sullivan

  Fall, People, Creative

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• Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Lifetime, Whole

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• Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Time, Women

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• There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

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• The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Being Sad, Risk

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• So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Long, Advisors, My Friends

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Happiness, Yoga

  Title of poem (1942)

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• The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Movie, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Health, Individual

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

  John Locke

  Ocean, Serendipity, Depth

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.15

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• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Satisfaction In Life, Years

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Life, Education, Math

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 140, p. 194, 1992.

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• The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

  Samuel Smiles

  Adversity, Discovery, Sorrow

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press

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• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Friendship, Depth

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• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Life, Lying, Men

  FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 20, 2013

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• ~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Satisfaction In Life, Use

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 20

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