Lengthened Quotes

#1. Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

Luc De Clapiers

#2. Gary looked back at Lartin and sized him up. Then he did that thing that I swear only unicorns can do. His blue eyes got impossibly big. His eyelashes lengthened as he fluttered them at Lartin. His mane was luminous in the darkened cave, and he purred, Well aren't you precious.

T.J. Klune

#3. As the sun sank lower in the sky and the shadows lengthened around us, I slowly came to realize that Ash wasn't coming back. He was truly gone.

Julie Kagawa

#4. Here the clouds constantly adjusted like obedient phantoms, so that shadows never lengthened or shortened. At any point in space, Limbo never became any darker or lighter than the moment before.

L. E. Henderson

#5. Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

Walter Savage Landor

#6. Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.

Jane Grey

#7. The scriptures speak of His arms being open, extended, stretched out, and encircling. They are described as mighty and holy, arms of mercy, arms of safety, arms of love, lengthened out all the day long.

Neil L. Andersen

#8. Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

Annie Dillard

#9. We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

M. Russell Ballard

#10. Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

Robert Burns

#11. The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

Arnaud Montebourg

#12. She lengthened her stride, aware at every step of how long she'd been sitting at a desk and how much her body rejoiced in this simple act of walking on the beach in the sun.

Donna Leon

#13. Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Arnold H. Glasow

#14. Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.

Alex Berenson

#15. A beautiful eyelash is an important adjunct to the eye. The lashes may be lengthened by trimming them occasionally in childhood. Care should be taken that this trimming is done neatly and evenly, and especially that the points of the scissors do not penetrate the eye.

Eliza Bisbee Duffey

#16. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.

Wallace Stegner

#18. What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#19. Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

Ray Bradbury

#20. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

Daniel Webster

#21. The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

Wilkie Collins

#22. All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

Og Mandino

#24. Life will be lengthened while growing, for
Thought is the measure of life.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#25. Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life.

Donald C. Peattie

#26. Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Once you had your man, you let all your accomplishments go. You don't sew or sing any more, you haven't illuminated a manuscript in years - and

Peter S. Beagle

#28. Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Jean Hegland

#29. Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

Roger Rosenblatt

#30. Tereza's death hurt me so much, it was as if I had two heads smashing into each other. One was full of mown love, the other of hate. I wanted the love to grow back. It grew like grass and straw, all mixed up together, and turned into an icy affirmation on my brow. That was my damn stupid plant.

Herta Muller

#31. We all die in the middle of something.

Roman Payne

#32. 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

Joe Lieberman

#33. Might be a task as politically perilous to the former as the latter.

Meredith Duran

#34. There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

#35. When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back!

Rumi

#36. Hey, which one's your favorite?" "Favorite what? Class?" "No, I mean book. You have to have a favorite." "Shit, I don't know. I've read so many that I wouldn't even know how to choose.

Aly Martinez

#37. Every massacre starts with the tongue.

Bryant McGill

#38. The benefits of smiling are limitless.

Asa Don Brown