Walking Quotes - Page 34

• Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now.

  Rachel Joyce

  Real, Thinking, Overcoming

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• The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

  Chinua Achebe

  Self, Shoes, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from May 03, 2015

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• I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Couple, Block, Voice

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.907, Simon and Schuster

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• And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

  Jess Walter

  Together, Enough, Sunlight

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• He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

  Madeline Miller

  Walking Sticks, Use, Weapons

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.195, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

  Rachel Cohn

  Stories, Might, Realizing

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.161, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.

  David Nicholls

  Grief, Hands, Ice

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.365, Hachette UK

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• God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Sleep, Order

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• I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, World, Streets

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• ...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Spring, Animal

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Ideas, Want, Whips

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1867, Dell

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• This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again

  Regina Spektor

  Love You, Heart, Blood

  Song: On The Radio, Album: Begin to Hope, 2006

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• It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town." - p 16 [re: Princess Leia]

  Simon Pegg

  Princess, Years, Important

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• You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. You have no clue of how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Shining, Earth

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Bloodlines: The Golden Lily”, p.314, Penguin UK

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• We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he affectionately squeezed my hand. "oh, take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists." "Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.

  Patti Smith

  Couple, Husband, Kids

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.47, A&C Black

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• I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Evil, Loving You

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• That'd be walking into dangerous territory," he says, getting up from the sofa. "Luke is not a morning person.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Morning, Territory, Sofas

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• We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down— locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don’t hinder running. Erin’s suggestion of “Avoid assholes” was popular.

  Tammara Webber

  Running, Writing, Exercise

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• All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.

  Robin Sharma

  Waiting, Path, Forget

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.32, Jaico Publishing House

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• I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.

  Patricia Briggs

  Son, Men, Laughing

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• In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.

  George Orwell

  Long, London, Towns

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.

  Isaac Marion

  Cheer, Sleep, Fog

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

  Dean Koontz

  War, Taken, Joy

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1113, Bantam

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• And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

  Emma Donoghue

  Years, Two, Castles

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• Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

  RuPaul

  Real, Women, Pieces

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