Length Quotes - Page 4

For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Time at length becomes justice.

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.

They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.

Shorth is better than length.

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

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that?

The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested.

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

The great mystery of life is the length of it.

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.