Top 100 Lengths Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
Carine Roitfeld
#3. until our faith is tested through challenges, obstacles, trials, and storms, it cannot be stretched to new lengths, deepened to new depths, nor grown to new heights. Faith must be tried to its limits before it can grow beyond those limits.
Christine Caine
#4. Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.
Neville Chamberlain
#5. It's really exhilarating and exciting to be able to meet your fan base and see them in person, and see the lengths that they're willing to go to.
Jason O'Mara
#6. As with any violent ideology, the populace must be shielded from direct exposure to the victims of the system, lest they begin questioning the system or their participation in it. This truth speaks for itself: why else would the meat industry go to such lengths to keep its practices invisible?
Melanie Joy
#7. Ah, girls. All warm and soft and fragrant, upset when their skirts tantalized a wind, anxious when no one noticed the smooth lengths of their legs, those pink knees. Ah, girls! Outraged by your indifference, frightened by your passion.
Bobby Flores-Villasis
#8. Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us ... leave. And if that happens, it's amazing the lengths we'll go to, to get them back.
Mary Alice
#9. I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.
Tananarive Due
#10. I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia ... The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.
Barack Obama
#11. I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.
Jack Nicklaus
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
Sidney Sheldon
#15. We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations.
Elizabeth Blackburn
#16. On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#17. This time, I invited it in. I felt the darkness tame my impetuous nature, allowing me to feed slowly on the hatred and control it. The coldness flowed through my veins and to the lengths of each limb. The icy darkness pooled in my chest and chilled my heart.
Leigh Goff
#18. 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
#19. As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
Haruki Murakami
#20. He would deny this is confronted, citing evasively his affection for Dante and Giotto, but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.
Donna Tartt
#21. The prime fact is that all humans are puffed up by their extreme self-satisfaction with their own brute power. Unless some creatures more powerful than humans arrive on earth to bully them, there's just no knowing to what dire lengths their fool presumptuousness will eventually carry them.
Soseki Natsume
#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. Government regulations had limited fabric lengths, banished pleats, and forbade having more than one pocket. Men now had a slim trim in the pant legs and women looked more military - gray flannel suits, low-heeled shoes in polished fake leather, shoulder-strap bags, berets and felt cloche hats.
Gregory Benford
#26. It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.
David Ginola
#27. The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
While small birds nestle in the edge below.
John Clare
#28. I am incapable of carrying on a discussion to fruitful lengths. I am incapable of the audacity of being logical. I confess to you, my boy, I have not the strength to be right.
Henri Barbusse
#29. In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish ... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.
Mike Dooley
#30. I wanted to follow the rain on its meanderings about our land to rejoin the sea, to break out of the frustration of a lifetime doing lengths, of endlessly turning back on myself like a tiger pacing its cage
Roger Deakin
#31. People who understand Doom don't blink an eye at song lengths.
Mike Scheidt
#32. He's [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You'll see; he'll do something wrong in the end. He always does.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#33. 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
#34. The sine of an angle is the ratio of the lengths of the side of the triangle opposite the angle and the hypotenuse.
Keith Peters
#35. In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
Arthur Henderson
#36. To what lengths would so precocious an ambition not go?
Seneca.
#37. Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.
Robert M. Hensel
#38. Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation He will descend in His wild pursuit of men.
Frederick Buechner
#39. Was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.
Charlotte Bronte
#41. 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
#42. Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really.
Spike Jonze
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
Marquis De Sade
#46. 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
#47. In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
Vince Poscente
#48. The only people who couldn't understand the brutal lengths others would go to for money were the people who'd never been without it.
Alex London
#49. My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I've learned how to use a blow dryer and flat iron.
Susanna Hoffs
#50. Angel," he murmured, clasping my face between his hands. "I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#51. 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
#52. I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills.
Christina Engela
#54. Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
Charles Caleb Colton
#55. It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.
Henry Rollins
#56. White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.
Ron Fournier
#57. If God had to go to such lengths to invite people to his birthday party, I reasoned, He probably wasn't serving very good cake.
Kirk Read
#58. When explicit thinking patterns were in charge, light waves of particular lengths were thought to stimulate Jenny's optical nerve, changing hue of her eye color.
Judy Byington
#59. Every time you think a thought it 'registers', and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out from your mind.
Al Koran
#60. I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.
Matthew Carter
#61. 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
#62. So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: 'Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security. We'll even make you a movie about it.' Style instead of substance, the image instead of the reality
Salman Rushdie
#63. 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
#64. I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'
Brian Ferneyhough
#65. Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen King
#66. Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.
Rick Riordan
#67. A man lives so many different lengths of time. And each one has its own end.
Steven Hall
#68. It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
James Baldwin
#69. American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
Florence King
#70. 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
#71. I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.
John McAfee
#72. The illicit Irish homemade spirit, poitin was frowned upon by the Catholic Church, which made its manufacture grave enough of a sin to require a bishop's absolution rather than that of the regular parish priest. Ah, the lengths the Irish will go to for "the demon drink!
Rashers Tierney
#73. Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste they use is internal, and says more about them than about the record they're writing about.
Chuck Klosterman
#74. You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him
Jodi Picoult
#75. Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious; holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#76. We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.
Kathryn Minshew
#77. Definitely with the fit of clothing - how it really depends on mere centimeters and millimeters of difference in terms of how lengths can make such a big impact on your shape. I learned how to incorporate a cute peter pan collar on a dress and not make it look juvenile.
Lily Collins
#78. The lengths I go to just to get between your legs.
M. Leighton
#79. 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
#80. I have gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.
Henry Rollins
#81. Maybe when you're married, you'll have a better idea of what desperate lengths you'll go to ... for your sake,I hope not.
Lisa Kleypas
#82. Why do you think anyone would go to such lengths to prove that a direct command of God is no longer applicable, unless it is to gain some other benefit other than the acceptance and approbation of God?
Michael Bunker
#83. The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.
Stirling Moss
#84. Your brand of pain in the assedness extends greater lengths. It might even span dimensions.
Kristen Ashley
#85. 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
#86. If female sexuality is muted compared to that of men, then why must men the world over go to extreme lengths to control and contain it?
Barbara Smuts
#87. He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it in autumnal colors, drenching it in April showers or mottling it with the instability of clouds.
Raymond Queneau
#88. It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
Thomas A. Edison
#89. But this is silly - we could sit here all night contrasting cock-lengths. I say mine is five feet long, you say yours is six, and shoots fire upon command.
Scott Lynch
#90. 'Little Night' comes from deep in my heart, and tells about the lengths people will go for love.
Luanne Rice
#91. Strange the lengths I'll go to in order to keep people away from me, considering how lonely I feel most of the time. I guess that's the strange torment I suffer: dying for company, for someone to talk to, but it's never the right someone who shows.
Hugh Howey
#92. I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.
Sadie Frost
#93. traditional Winterian clothing for women consists of pleated, ivory, floor-length dresses, most of the men wear blue tunics and pants under lengths of white fabric that wrap in an X around their torsos.
Sara Raasch
#94. Can you love someone you don't trust?"
"Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.
Daniel Abraham
#95. There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Robert Benchley
#96. Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
Carl Sandburg
#97. (The genomes of two individual humans differ by an average of about 3 million positions, which is approximately 0.1 percent of the total. Most of these are single base changes or changes in tandem repeat lengths.)
George M. Church
#98. The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.
Theodore Dalrymple
#99. The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of less is more.
Darynda Jones
#100. People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.
Susan Vreeland
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