Great Lengths Quotes

#1. The fact that 'True Blood' affects people in this way is incredible to me - the fact we have to go to such great lengths to hide storylines just proves the cache our show has.

Ryan Kwanten

#2. Has no prospects of being either, then you don't just need a remote position - you need a new job. Only the office can be secure Companies often go to great lengths to make employees

Jason Fried

#3. Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.

Dillon Burroughs

#4. Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?

Robert Wright

#5. Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

Evan Esar

#6. I couldn't be certain whether their eagerness to leave was fueled by their desire to see more fire or to get away from my mother. I wouldn't have blamed them at all if it was the latter - most people went to great lengths to avoid her on a regular basis, myself and my father included.

Heather James

#7. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time and then gives great favors and great privileges and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

Zac Goldsmith

#9. The truth is that most of us go to great lengths to disguise our weaknesses.

Kyle Idleman

#10. The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. We can't always see what others don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it -Mr. Embry

Jennifer Niven

#12. When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

Victoria Osteen

#13. In fact, much of this book, and perhaps that is its main surprise, examines the great lengths to which the Ottomans went to stay out of the war.

Mustafa Aksakal

#14. Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

Pamela Sargent

#15. I have gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.

Henry Rollins

#16. I love men. I also hate men; I wouldn't want to be in a world without them but I have to say, it's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you.

Donna Lynn Hope

#17. White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

Ron Fournier

#18. If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me.

David G. McAfee

#19. The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very
friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

H.L. Mencken

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

Sidney Sheldon

#21. 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 it.

Sarah Addison Allen

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

John C. Maxwell

#23. I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.

Hugh Laurie

#24. It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.

David Benatar

#25. I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.

Bob Corker

#26. 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 world in our head coherent and understandable.

Marya Hornbacher

#27. If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#28. When I first learned to drive and I bought petrol I went to great lengths to trickle the final drops into the petrol tank so it cost a round amount of money like £10. Now I try and spend £19.87 or £20.04 or some other amount that I hope will disturb the cashier's sense of neatness and uniformity.

Helen Smith

#29. Because Pyongyang is the only North Korean city frequented by foreigners, the regime goes to great lengths to ensure that its inhabitants make a good impression with their appearance and are ideologically sound.

Barbara Demick

#30. My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

Ronnie Dunn

#31. People rarely want to kill, David. It's not the basic makeup of the healthy human mind. In most situations they will go to great lengths to avoid killing. Remember that, and it will help you.

Brandon Sanderson

#32. So, many of us have discovered something of the love of God; but there are heights, depths and lengths of it we do not know. That Love is a great ocean; and we require to plunge into it before we really know anything of it.

D.L. Moody

#33. Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

George Carlin