#length

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#been #built #care #comparable #declared

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation. ↗

— David Attenborough

#any #conclusion #driven #generation #genes

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#analyze #go #lengths #people #seems

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#friends #had #hope #i #influenced

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 Turner

#being #determined #everything #influence #length

I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary. ↗

— Pat Toomey

#afraid #after #budget #called #done

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#admires #knowing #length #only #things

I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end. ↗

— Dennis Franz

#devotion #end #i #length #miss

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#depends #how #length #long #takes

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#any #anyone #around #been #cat