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

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.

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

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs cats lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer unless under compulsion from society.

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

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

What the government has to do if it wants to govern for any length of time is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

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

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

Without fullness of experience length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically bumping balance performance.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me and at length the longing has been satisfied.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit beauty intelligence the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

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

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.