Trails Quotes - Page 6

• Tension pulled my eyes open when her fingers traced a trail down my neck. Sensation blossomed, and I threw my head back and sucked in the air. Her arm slipped around my waist, catching me before I fell.

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Air, Arms

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• I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty

  Everett Ruess

  Stars, Mean, Intelligent

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• The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.

  Enos Mills

  Inspirational, Hope, Courage

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• In the time of the seventh Fire new people will emerge. They will retrace their steps to find what was left by the side of the trail long ago. Their steps will take them to the Elders, who they will ask to guide them on their journey. But many of the Elders will have fallen asleep. They will awaken to this new time with nothing to offer. Some of the Elders will be silent out of fear. But most of the Elders will be silent because no one will ask anything of them.

  William Commanda

  Journey, Fire, Long Ago

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• Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

  George Ayittey

  Leaving, Vapid, Naked

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth.

  Allison Glock

  Dog, Riding, Teeth

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• The places where trails do not exist are not well marked.

  Dave Barry

  Interesting, Wells

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• There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

  Dan Chaon

  Years, People, Twenties

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid her head on his grave. I saw the trail where she had dragged herself through the leaves. The way she lay there, I thought she was alive. I called her name. She made no movement. With the last ounce of strength in her body, she had dragged herself to the grave of Old Dan.

  Wilson Rawls

  Lying, Names, Feet

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• Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.

  Robert Johnson

  Hell, Hounds, Hail

  "Hell Hound on My Trail" (song) (1937)

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• To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed .  I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).

  Arthur Honegger

  Reflection, Giving, Mind

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• Every liberal on the campaign trail has a plan to deliver free, socialized medicine, but no country on earth, folks, can possibly pay for every test for everybody without going bankrupt.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Medicine, Campaigns

  "REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear". www.mediamatters.org. March 5, 2009.

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• Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

  Matsuo Basho

  Jewels, Sky, Mountain

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• Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love Is, Cost, Devastation

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• I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,” he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.” I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

  Abbi Glines

  Strong, Hurt, Kissing

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• I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and then after that I was hooked. And then in first or second grade, I ganked or stole a book from the library just because it had a dirt bike with trails. It was one of those things where as a kid, the world is your oyster as far as what you can do, and you don't associate jobs and things with making money.

  Taylor Kinney

  Jobs, Book, Kids

  "Which 'Chicago Fire' star binges on YouTube fail videos?" by Matt Murray, www.today.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears … I'm a gut pile addict … The pig didn't know I was there … it's my kick … I love shafting animals … it's rock 'n' roll power.

  Ted Nugent

  Winter, Animal, Rocks

  "Never a dull moment with the Nugent" by Dan Craft, www.pantagraph.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

  Brandon Boyd

  Fables, Fields, Infinity

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• While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  People, Comfort, Groups

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• Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.

  Katherine Center

  Smile, Heartbreak, Adventure

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• Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.

  Todd English

  Europe, Wife, Littles

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• But some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.

  Marguerite Henry

  Animal, Men, Rocks

  Marguerite Henry (2015). “Brighty of the Grand Canyon”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

  Grey Owl

  Inspiration, Men, Simple

  Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

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• You get that horse to really operate as if he’s your legs and you can take that anywhere you want. You can dress up in any kind of clothes you like. You can be a jumper, dressage rider, trail rider, cowboy, anything.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Cowboy, Clothes

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• It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.

  Mark Oliphant

  Jobs, Essentials, Hot

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