Length Quotes

• When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

  George S. Patton

  Motivation, Doubt, Certain

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

  John Elway

  Games, Guy, Would Be

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• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

  John Lyly

  Inspirational, Honesty, Life Is

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• A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Drinking, Divorce

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• Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

  Dale E. Turner

  Soul, Quality, Shadow

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• Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  War, Numbers, Sides

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• It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

  Ruth Handler

  Degrees

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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

  Destiny, Play, Excellence

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

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• I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

  Dirk Benedict

  Writing, Parent, Becoming

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• I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

  Harrison Ford

  Grateful, Careers, Hot

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• The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Moon, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.167, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

  Trevor Dunn

  Band, Grows, Hopefully

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• The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Knowing, Admiration, Admire

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• If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

  William Rehnquist

  Shadow, Would Be, Individual

  Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.

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• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Health, Length Of Life

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Depth, Public Speaking

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• TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

  Tom Brokaw

  Fake People, Fickle, Television

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• I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Longing, Satisfied, Has Beens

  Julia Margaret Cameron (1973). “Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women”, David R. Godine Publisher

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• You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Ocean, Sea

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• My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Hair, Today, Concern

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.427, Best Books on

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• Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Crystals, Abundance, Inches

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• I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

  Jay Roach

  Cutting, Directors, Want

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

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• I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Eight, Twenties, Adults

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• To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

  Frank Darabont

  Arbitrary, Film, Artificial

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