Inches Quotes - Page 16

• As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

  Grimes

  Challenges, Trying, Quality

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• Heat lingers
  As days are still long;
  Early mornings are cool
  While autumn is still young.
  Dew on the lotus
  Scatters pure perfume;
  Wind on the bamboos
  Gives off a gentle tinkling.
  I am idle and lonely,
  Lying down all day,
  Sick and decayed;
  No one asks for me;
  Thin dusk before my gates,
  Cassia blossoms inch deep.

  Bai Juyi

  Lonely, Morning, Lying

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• To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.

  John Austin Baker

  Heart, Suffering Of Others, Imagination

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.

  Dean Karnazes

  Success, Granted, Ifs

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.89, Rodale

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• Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.

  Lee Westwood

  Months, Eighteen

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• I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high
  between the horses' feet and the wheel-track.
  Which Dakin's and Maynard's wagons had
  Passed over many a time.
  An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate,
  Or an inch higher. Yet it lived and flourished,
  As much as if it had a thousand acres
  Of untrodden space around it, and never
  Knew the danger it incurred.
  It did not borrow trouble, nor invite an
  Evil fate by apprehending it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Horse, Flower

  "The Heart of Thoreau's Journals".

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• The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Surfing, Way

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• In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

  Lyman Abbott

  New York, Space, Rude

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• Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Beauty, Running, Hero

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• ...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches toward death.

  Pope Clement XIII

  Powerful, Lying, Errors

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• Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.

  Dogen

  Life, Moon, Light

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• If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Father, Half

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• What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

  Michael Shermer

  Spring, Space, Hands

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• As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.

  Sania Mirza

  Winning, Feet, Long

  "Mirza hits back for modern Muslims" by Robert Philip, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 01, 2007.

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• Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

  Laurens van der Post

  Love, Fighting, Men

  "Feather Fall: An Anthology".

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• Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years.

  Wendell Berry

  Two, Years, Tree

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

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• Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off

  John Motson

  Soccer, White, Snow

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• And here's Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.

  Dan Maskell

  Feet, Tennis, Six

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• All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Philosophy, Trying, Teeth

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• An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Feet, Jade

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• The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

  Robert Breault

  Average, Long, Optimism

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• Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

  Dorothy Parker

  Marriage, Office, Magazines

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• We shall progress inch by inch.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

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• Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

  George Ellery Hale

  Fall, Squares, Rays

  George Ellery Hale (1931). “Signals from the Stars”

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