#length

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#after #apart #arm #barrels #behind

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

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#ancient times #authors #copied #copyright #did

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#creative people #fall #hard #length #out

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#contemporary #half #how #length #novel

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

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#again #had #i #length #life

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#been #cover #discussed #elaborate #far

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#advances #enhanced #enlarged #exciting #human