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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little.

Michel de Montaigne

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

George S. Patton

There were traffic jams for 1,000 kilometers, from Karachi to the northern areas, the whole length of Pakistan.

Nasreen Khattak

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Marilyn vos Savant

We haven't played a course close to that. That's tour length.

Rob Sheldon

It is not the runway length that's the issue. Runways are either adequate or they're not.

Bernard Loeb

The idea that a province that doesn't have criminal jurisdiction could send someone to jail for that length of time is ridiculous.

Brian Greenspan

Seven days is the length of a guest's life.

Burmese Proverb

If you increase the channel length, you have a slower device but with better leakage. A thin gate oxide will be fast with high leakage, and a thick oxide will be slower with better leakage.

Heinz Schuetzeneder

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

The focus is on my physical fitness and I am also looking to improve my line and length.

Abid Nabi

He finished a length behind Laity, and he's 4-1.

Mark Stanley

In that length of time, I could have made 100 miles. It turns out it's not that easy.

Gary Cantrell

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

Dale E. Turner

We had freedom, but the one thing that Chris and I agree on is that good music doesn't have to be judged in terms of length.

Billy Sherwood

They were out in the yard and they were concerned about the length of time they're being held.

Lori Haley

It was an eye-opener for them. The length of the course was very tough. None of the girls hit for distance yet. There was also hills and water.

Mike Holliday

This is great news for the Canadian people, who have been voicing their concern over the length of this dispute.

Joe Fontana

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

We just didn't have enough speed. He has a lot more water length than we did. I was happy we stayed with him.

Steve Todd

I think the length of time we were without the basic utilities was the most concern to me.

Bill Oliver

With Greenfield's pressure, length and size, we figured the only way to get good shots was to penetrate. Haley created some shots for us.

Phil Willard

(The length of time) varies from case to case. Some need more.

Chris Weaver

The length of their necks relates to what they eat.

Charles Griswold

We believe this capital cycle in mining equipment is different from those in the past two decades, specifically in length and strength.

John Hanson

Hopefully we will make a full-length album, get signed and come back here with a few new songs. But fans can expect the same things live that we've been doing, just a little more energetic.

Patrick Mitchell

The causes are numerous. One of the areas is insufficient concrete, insufficient runway length and the lack of safety areas on some existing airports that we have today.

John Cox

Because food-chain length influences the bioaccumulation of contaminants, understanding the causes of variation in food-chain length will help us understand the variation of contaminant concentrations.

David Post

He will be sleeping within an arm's length from his father and mother.

Prince Frederik

We can fit a beginner for length, grip and club head speed.

Chris Plummer

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Jean Rostand

Length is not an issue for him, ... Heck, he hits it 5-10 yards past me. He hits it as far as he ever did.

Bart Bryant

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Robert Hall

It was the perfect length and everything... Perfect color.

Jacques Chiron

It's surprising to me how much has happened in such a short length of time.

Allen Toussaint

We're not real encouraged by the length of time that has gone by.

Chuck Cooper

The shadow should be the same length as the body.

Indonesian Proverb

I really enjoyed most of the time I was at Georgia. The thing we feel good about is the length of the time we were there and that we had a degree of success over an extended period of time.

Hugh Durham

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Evan Esar

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Depending on the status of ducks, the season length could change quite a bit.

Jim Gammonley

Some women who have short arms are 5 feet 6 but buy petites because they are more comfortable with that arm length.

Peggy Dupras

She stays calm and collected on the course. She has really improved her short game. Her length off the tee helps, too.

Jennifer Froeschle

Mild restraint will go a long way with lace. No one has done a floor-length lace evening gown since the late '70s.

Brian Primeaux

We're talked at some length about whether taking all these fish will damage the resource, but our fisheries people assure me they can keep up with the demand.

Bryan Golie

We didn't deal with their pressure. They've got length to their team and we were too much on the perimeter.

George Dudas

The main thing (to be negotiated) is the length of the deal but we don't see any problems.

Paul Armstrong

I have spoken at length to him ands he has agreed that he'd like to come back and play.

Pitso Mosimane

Alternatives to Materialism. I lived my life in an ivory tower, and business was to be held at an arm's length.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I?m impressed you would go to great length to fight this cause.

Robert Weber

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Tom Brokaw

Over the length of the contract, we are talking about millions of dollars.

Tom Kimbrough

In the light of the state of the accused's health and the length and complexity of the case, the trial chamber is concerned about completion of the trial.

Richard May

It is also getting an arms-length relationship with its own mutual funds.

Craig Woker

It's not about the length of the posts. It's about the passion.

Cam Barrett

Their height didn't bother us, but their length and athleticism together definitely gave us problems.

Julianne Berry

It's unbelievable the difference. The big one to me is No. 5, which was a tough par 4 before. I don't think it needed any length, but it got it.

Charles Howell Iii

This bridge backs up every day with four lanes going through. We're going to have only three lanes. The bridge will be backed up for the length of construction.

Steve Heminger

Until I win and prove myself, length doesn't get you the record, it doesn't get you in the Hall of Fame, doesn't get you anything.

Bubba Watson

We feel it is important over the length of the tournament that we use all 12 players and we have full confidence in those 12 because you never know what is going to happen further down the track.

Ruth Aitken

Twenty-years from now is not an unusual length (of time for a corridor to be built).

Ric Williamson

We are too interconnected to try to hold China at arm's length, hoping to promote other powers in Asia at its expense.

Robert Zoellick

I want to be able to get length on my ball. I definitely want to improve at least a club. My short game is pretty good, but I wouldn't mind improving that, too.

Shelcie Takenouchi

Tad took the ball out of bounds and gave it up to me, which, he was the best player in the state and he gave it up, so that said what kind of player he was. No one was covering me, and I drove down the length of the court and pulled up and let her fly.

Dean Miller

It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.

H. G. Wells

It was 1-inch thick. It weighed about 100 pounds. It was a little over 360 feet in length.

David Schofield

Their press was too much for us. They don't let off and play the full length of the court.

Rob Hardy

It's incredibly unusual. I have never been aware of any church having any staff member for that length of time.

Dale Raines

There's a number of errors ranging from where the course area was, the length of the course, as well as procedural errors...it's probably the first America's Cup race that's gone around an island since 1851.

Brian Walker

If she can maintain a healthy back, she would be one of my top choices. She has the length to compete, a wonderful short game and the desire to be on top.

Dottie Pepper

CA has got to be breathing an incredible sigh of relief. Anything that keeps CA at arm's length from legal proceedings is good for CA and good for its customers.

Michael Dortch

The delta can't be fixed unless we fix the San Joaquin -- and the San Joaquin can't be fixed unless water is allowed to run the length of that river. That's the bottom line.

Bill Jennings

It's a fairly modest plan given the length of the road, and we tried to avoid things that are controversial.

Karen Hendrixson

She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to get him.

Judy Hayles

He was able to use his length and create some problems for them in there.

Bill Vincent

There's just no reason for that length of a delay in that kind of case where you know you've got the right guy.

Kent Scheidegger

We have statements from both of them, we interviewed them at length and they ultimately admitted a huge dependency problem.

Lt. Gary Ingham

However, I have only made horror/thriller feature length movies.

Richard King

This is nice a break from the full-length ballets we do throughout the year, changing it up a bit into a medley affair.

Amy Wolfe

It?s not the length of time they live. The older dogs we have, we know will die calmly, they will die loved.

Anne Solli

They threw the ball the length of the court perfectly to their guy in between two of ours and the guy faked both our guys out, but he missed the open shot inside the box.

Shane Reid

You don?t see many full-length ballets being made like this, because the risk is so great.

Victoria Morgan

We've got to make teams drive the length of the field. It just has to be done.

Rick Vrhovac

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

John Lyly

Wet conditions are always difficult, but are especially so at Spa due to the length of the track.

David Coulthard

We faced a team with a lot of athleticism and a lot of length. That made it more difficult.

Mike Angel

This is an operation of indeterminate length. It will continue until we find the 10 rifles and the pistol.

Col. Fernando Lemos

We must protect the freedoms we enjoy today to raise a family, to start and grow a business and keep government at arms length from the door of our homes to the door of our businesses.

Jim Gibbons

Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable.

Christian Wolff

Or another rule of thumb is to add one car length for every 10 mph you are traveling.

Steve Vitolo

If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.

Alastair Campbell

You have to put your blinders on and know that these people have an interest in making money off you. They're good people. They just have to be kept at arm's length - you can't deal with it any other way.

Ernie Passailaigue