Inches Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

  Walt Whitman

  Dark, Men, Squares

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.96, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Light, Years

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• I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

  Ai Weiwei

  Strong, New York, Scary

  "Ai Weiwei: 'I Have to Speak for People Who Are Afraid'". Interview with Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

  William Camden

  Missing, Ells

  William Camden, John Philipot, Thomas Moule, Mark Antony Lower (1870). “Remains Concerning Britain”, p.318, Ep Publishing Limited

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• I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

  Kris Carr

  Witty, Delicious

  Kris Carr, Sheila Buff (2011). “Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It!”, p.246, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I've been within an inch of my life.

  Gary Lutz

  Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

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• Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way--insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders.

  Andrew X. Pham

  Party, Moving, Fighting

  Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.75, Macmillan

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• On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

  Paul Harvey

  Rain, Men, Garden

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• Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

  Plutarch

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan.

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

  Kashmir, Pakistan, Behinds

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• It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter. ... The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Pain, Punishment, Play

  "Jim Harbaugh comfortable in chaos" by Seth Wickersham, www.espn.com. October 02, 2014.

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• Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.

  Michael Frayn

  Moving, Hands, Sky

  Michael Frayn (2013). “Constructions”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

  Christian Louboutin

  Goddess, Feels, Five

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• One inch of love is an inch of ashes.

  Li Shangyin

  Love Is, Ashes

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• If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if we submit we will be trampled under foot. I hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would follow compromise, until our ranks would be so broken that effectual resistance would be impossible.

  John C. Calhoun

  Feet, Yield, Broken

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• Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 41: Sermons 2394-2445”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.

  Eboo Patel

  Dream, Buddhist, Jobs

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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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• I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!

  Anthony Foley

  Trying, Arses, Remember

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• I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.

  Terry McMillan

  Mirrors, Long, Age

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.15, Penguin

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• Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Space, Miracle, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.256, NYU Press

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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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• She's wearin' heels, boy, but she's five foot seven, you got five inches and at least a hundred pounds on her," Max replied and I figured he was being a might bit generous with the weight but I wasn't going to correct him, mostly because he wasn't done talking. "And, lastly, she's a woman. You don't ever strike a woman in anger.

  Kristen Ashley

  Boys, Talking, Feet

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