Length Quotes - Page 3

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

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Lifetime, Whole

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

  Harold Ramis

  Cutting, Rooms, Optimal

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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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• Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

  Gerard Majella

  Giving, Support, Use

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• I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but in each there is the same question at its core: Can I convince the person about whom I am crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Crazy, Communication, Long

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Mind, Use

  Emile Bk 1 (1762)

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• If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.

  Geoff Dyer

  Moving, Two, Bored

  "Danger! High-radiation arthouse!" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2009.

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• There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Children, Order, Protect

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the “disgrace of the young.” She would not miss this place.

  Libba Bray

  Real, Blue, Giving

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• Amber, you could never embarrass me." "Never?" she asked. "Never." "One time, I yelled across the store to Mom and asked her if she wanted the regular or the super-absorbent tampons. I added that, according to the box, the super-absorbent were for those heavy days. Then I asked her to rate her heaviness on a scale of one to ten." "Okay, you could." "Then while we were standing in line, I asked her why she was buying three boxes of Summer's Eve in the middle of winter." I set her at arm's length. "Wow." "I know, right? I had no idea a person could turn so red.

  Darynda Jones

  Summer, Mom, Winter

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.150, St. Martin's Press

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• Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

  Stephen King

  School, Administration, Skirts

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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