Miles Quotes - Page 10

• The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Reality, Cities

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• And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Heart, Miracle

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• There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Recovery, Race

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• I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?

  Robert Reich

  Country, Jobs, Business

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• Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming!
  Party On!
  A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead!
  Party On!
  My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river!
  Party On!

  Cody Lundin

  Party, Rivers, Survival

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?

  Guru Nanak

  Leaving, Mind, Flamingos

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• Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Mother, Prayer, Children

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• I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

  Patti LaBelle

  Mind, Extras, Extra Mile

  Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

  James Cameron

  Fall, Rivers, People

  "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.

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• At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Distance, Age, Three

  Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

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• I’d rather lose a 3:58 mile than win one in 4:10.

  John Landy

  Winning, Loses

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• Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

  Du Fu

  House, Covering, Poor

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• So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once.

  Tony Hoagland

  Beautiful, Running, Hurt

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• The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Water, Speed, Sand

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Fortune Cookie, Steps

  "The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king".

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• I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time.

  Nick Saban

  Hard Work, Tired, Kids

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• You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely

  Tom Osborne

  Years, Use, Want

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• On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.

  Edward Teller

  Heart, Next Day, Islands

  2 page advertisement sponsored by Dresser Industries in the "Wall Street Journal", July 31, 1979.

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• Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Mean, Yesterday

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• An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and I have reached float altitude... Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

  Joseph Kittinger

  Morning, Reading, Feet

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• Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

  Joseph Kittinger

  Feet, Sound, Hitting

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• I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.

  Jacques Pepin

  Son, Two, Three

  Jacques Pepin (2004). “The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

  M. Scott Peck

  Real, Love Is, Our Love

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Yards, Trials, Inches

  Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly (2011). “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing.

  Philip Alston

  Risk, Audio, Aviation

  "Drone warfare: life on the new frontline" by Chris Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2015.

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