Miles Quotes - Page 19

• If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Fitness, Running, Exercise

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• Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

  Eric Sevareid

  Home, Knowledge, Guy

  Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”

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• Oh when I was in love with you,
  Then I was clean and brave,
  And miles around the wonder grew
  How well did I behave.
  And now the fancy passes by,
  And nothing will remain,
  And miles around they'll say that
  I Am quite myself again.

  A. E. Housman

  Life, Love You, Brave

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 18

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• Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

  Richard O'Brien

  Running, Race, Appreciate

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• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Animal, Space

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.85, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.

  Jean Chretien

  Silence, Political, Together

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• Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away.
  Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Relationship, Distance, Love Is

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• I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

  Helen Clark

  Independent, Thinking, Reality

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• I feel like I have a lot more freedom to make these decisions to kind of sit back and enjoy the fruits of my labor. I have a really good sense of who I am now and what I am capable of and because of that, I have the confidence to go after things like a 7-day 545-mile bike ride and know I can do it.

  Cristina Goyanes

  Who I Am, Decision, Age

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• You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Running, Four, Week

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• That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.

  Dave Wakeling

  Heart, Evil, Gold

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• I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Morning, Feels

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• I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

  Roger Bannister

  Athlete, Race, Perfect

  "Sir Roger Bannister on Passion". he Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

  Roger Bannister

  Athlete, Records, Preoccupation

  "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. February 23, 2018.

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• May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Strong, Athlete

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Success, Country

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.65, Cooper Square Press

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• In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

  Peter Ackroyd

  London, Spirit, Born

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• The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

  Charles Kuralt

  Rain, Illinois, Years

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• Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Giving, Dizzy

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• When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, New York, Different

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• (On upcoming racing plans) Right now I am going to go back into training and then I am going to resurface and do the BAA Mile, The Boston Mile, and then I am going to do the USA Championships Mile out in Des Moines, Iowa. Then it is either going to be between The Penn or Drake Relays and then I will go back into training again and start another kind of session.

  Leonel Manzano

  Athlete, Boston, Iowa

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• But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

  Frederick Marryat

  New York, 4th Of July, Pigs

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America”, p.38

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• If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Inspirational Sports, Bad Day

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• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Future, Science, Ideas

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• At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until the year 2330 - to deploy SBInet technology across the Southwest border. That statistic would be comical if the subject matter were not so serious.

  Henry Cuellar

  Technology, Years, Immigration

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