#length

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

#been #days #death #god #hasten

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #comfortable #fiction #four #genre

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing. ↗

— Ruth Handler

#degree #length #success #time

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

#cult #dictatorship #glorification #gone #lengths

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

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. ↗

— John Badham

#about #attention #attention span #great #just

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. ↗

— Albert Camus

#any #enough #faith #force #insure

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

It is not length of life, but depth of life. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#depth #length

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. ↗