Inches Quotes - Page 9

• ...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in this and a certain unfairness even, which makes golf an even apter mirror of reality.

  John Updike

  Golf, Reality, Mirrors

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• He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Death, Courage, Get Away

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

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• In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Distance, Yoga, Heart

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• When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.

  Maria Semple

  Eye, Brain, Horizon

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Rain, Darkness, Four

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• When he inches into me, I feel the pain, but I also feel the invisible chains around my wrists break and shatter.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Invisible, Break

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

  Angela Carter

  Two, Rubies, Chokers

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men.

  Kim Harrison

  Loss, Men, Two

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• Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Four

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• Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success. it taught me to see things for what they can be. I had 17-inch arms; I imagined them to be 24 inches. The power of my mind allowed me to achieve what I imagined.

  Kai Greene

  Boys, Bodybuilding, Mind

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• On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

  Al McGuire

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Happiness, People

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.186, 谷月社

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• I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea’s neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend’s windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas.

  Ilona Andrews

  Knives, Two, My Best Friend

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.32, Penguin

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• And this is what you get for laughing at me." He pulled her up a few inches until his lips touched hers.

  C.C. Hunter

  Laughing, Lips, Touched

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• Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much work. We put all these limitations on ourselves and our relationships because we’re afraid that we’re not really loved. That we’re not really accepted. We hide little pieces of ourselves because we think that might be the one thing that finally drives away the person who’s supposed to love us.

  Michele Bardsley

  Acceptance, Thinking, Squares

  Michele Bardsley (2010). “Cross Your Heart: A Broken Heart Novel”, p.148, Penguin

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• It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

  Anne Lamott

  Moving, Fall, Helping Others

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.36, Penguin

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• After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my feet a couple inches off the ground as I kick furiously with my heels, twisting my head back and forth, snapping at his forearm with my teeth. And the whole time his lips tickling the delicate skin of my ear. "Cassie. Don't. Cassie..." "Let...me...go." "That's been the whole problem. I can't.

  Rick Yancey

  Crush, Couple, Feet

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• Normal and I parted ways when Pateir1ch strolled into my life. Patch has seven inches on me, operates on cold, hard logic, moves like smoke, and lives alone in a supersecret, superswanky studio beneath Delphic Amusement Park. The sound of his voice, low and sexy, can melt my heart in three seconds flat. He’s also a fallen angel, kicked out of heaven for his flexibility when it comes to following rules. I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Running, Sexy, Moving

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• Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

  Matt Chandler

  Ocean, Dental Floss, Trying

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• If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

  Napoleon Hill

  Morning, Giving Up, Writing

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Thank you,” he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…” And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Kissing, Names, Tears

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• I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.

  Tablo

  Sleep, Grandmother, Doors

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• In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Jobs, Blue, Feet

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• Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

  Veronica Roth

  Doe, Looks, World

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• Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Sky, Two, Height

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.273, Hachette UK

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