Miles Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Fire, Half

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• Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Long, Surfing

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• Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement.

  Buddy Rice

  Running, Exercise, Engineering

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• Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, New York, Hero

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• Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name - total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Mother, New York

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.

  Jim Larranaga

  Life, Motivational, Kids

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• There's very few people go the extra mile - so go the extra mile and give it all you've got.

  Jim Leishman

  Life, Motivational, People

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• There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.

  Michael Bennet

  Optimistic, Years, People

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• You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Success, Congratulations, Half

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• I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  "Obama: 'I have been an imperfect father'" by Barack Obama, www.today.com. May 27, 2010.

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• The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Eight, Sitting Still

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• I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.

  Jean Webster

  Wall, Fall, Orange

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.108, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Team

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• It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

  Ivan Illich

  Art, Learning, People

  Ivan Illich (1974). “Mission and Midwifery: Essays on Missionary Formation”

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• Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.

  Arnold McCuller

  Friendship, Years, Tears

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• Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Eye, Garden, Feet

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• This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

  Erica Jong

  Long Distance Relationship, Mountain, Bed

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• We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but...uh...(smile).

  Brian Skrudland

  Hockey, Rockets, Next

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• If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, New Year, Jobs

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• I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Sports, Men, Wind

  On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).

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• No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Troops, World

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• But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner after 18 or 20 miles, who will survive. The key to that survival is in hard workouts that develop mental confidence to the point where you won't submit to fatigue and pain descending upon you.

  Lou Banach

  Sports, Workout, Wall

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• Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Food, Order, Clothes

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• Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Four, Roger

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