Miles Away Quotes - Page 7

• Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back.

  Nicholas Royle

  Book, Giving, Littles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I might live miles away from you, but I do understand you issues.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Issues, Might

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• Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

  Ian Mcewan

  Sadness, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• When you're heading into Anzac cove you are going into this battle situation staring into the sun. So, any movement in that water, any glint is going to be seen for miles away. Even in the first rays of dawn, there's nowhere to hide.

  Russell Crowe

  Water, Battle, Dawn

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from a major WarPac nuclear target until the Berlin Wall came down and the CW ended. Knowing you can die horribly at any moment because of decisions made by alien intelligences thousands of miles away who don't even know you exist - there's something Lovecraftian about that, isn't there?

  Charles Stross

  Children, Wall, War

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• Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Native American, Sacrifice, Land

  "The Lost History of Puerto Rico’s Independence Movement". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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• ...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their water supply comes from hundreds of miles away and any interruption of that, or food, or power for any period of time, you're going to have riots in the streets. Our society is so fragile, so dependent on the interworking of things to provide us with goods and services, that you don't need nuclear warfare to fragment us anymore than the Romans needed it to cause their eventual downfall.

  Gene Roddenberry

  New York, Cities, Water

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• A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies - though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can be true. What I feel for you is highly intense, whether you are standing next to me or living a hundred miles away. I do not have to be touching you at all to experience what I feel.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Couple, Believe, Touching You

  Jennifer Ashley (2011). “The Many Sins of Lord Cameron”, p.220, Penguin

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• There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice your joke, the scene, the story just to be the star. All they want is attention and to be number one. You can spot those guys from a mile away and they're the worst.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Stars, Sacrifice, Numbers

  "Jake Johnson: It's Legal to Smoke Bad Weed". Interview With Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. August 13, 2014.

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• Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

  Fred Rogers

  Kids, Phony, Miles

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• There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.

  Michael Collins

  Appreciate, Earth, Tiny

  Michael Collins, Charles A. Lindbergh (2001). “Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey”, p.471, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire's level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet's daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Care, May, Safe

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• Death tripped down the corridor, changing step, struck out here and there, danced pirouettes; often I felt his breath on my face when he was miles away; often I fell asleep and dreamed while he stood leaning over my bed.

  Arthur Koestler

  Bed, Here And There, Pirouettes

  Arthur Koestler (2011). “Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War”, p.202, University of Chicago Press

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• There's never been a moment,' he barely said, 'when I didn't recognize you.' She wiped her eyes. Her mascara smeared. He nudged the merry-to-round into motion. He could kiss her now. If he wanted. 'I'd know you in the dark,' he said. 'From a thousand miles away. There's nothing you could become that I haven't already fallen in love with.' He could kiss her. 'I know you,' he said.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Dark, Kissing

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• My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

  Jim Butcher

  Friday, Fun, Rip

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.128, Penguin Group

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• As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Pain, War, Differences

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart.

  Alice Hoffman

  Song, Falling In Love, Stars

  "Fictional characters: Young Sally Owens, Young Gillian Owens". "Practical Magic", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Where are you originally from?” “The planet Lorien, three hundred million miles away.” “Must have been a long trip, John Smith.” “Took almost a year. Next time I’m bringing a book.

  Pittacus Lore

  Book, Years, Long

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• Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few miles away on the island. The logical, rational answer was obvious. "Which is why the world stays messed up," Caine said under his breath. "People aren't rational." He took a few deep, steadying breaths, and prepared to die for power.

  Michael Grant

  Beautiful, Girl, Islands

  "Plague". Book by Michael Grant, 2011.

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• It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

  Sherman Alexie

  Fear, Drinking, Rocks

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

  Achim Steiner

  Islands, Sea, Rising

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• I think it's important to be authentic to who you are, and if you're inauthentic at all, people smell that from a mile away.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, Smell, People

  Source: variety.com

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• Young people have been ill-educated, mis-educated, propagandized. I see it in everything I read written by young people. You can spot it a mile away, their ignorance. And it's coupled with they think they're the only people that know. They're arrogant. They're a little bit smarmy about what they think they know and nobody else does, which is a characteristic of young people anyway. I was that way when I was young.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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