Quotes of: Thousand-miles Keyword

The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. I...

One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace

Suppose just five percent of the tens of thousands of people in Tiananmen Square at that time had portable phones, digital cameras, and video cameras, and the content from 10% of those devices had been uploaded and spread via the 'Net? There wouldn't...

Ian Lamont

Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs ...

Derek Sivers

He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot had become derailed. He was unable to see his way through the smoke and coke dust of a mythical railway track that ...

Garry Douglas Kilworth

Failure never crosses a victorious mind

Freedom Run: A 100-Day, 3,452-Mile Journey Across America to Benefit Wounded Veterans

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

The Green Mile

When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.

The Green Mile

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

The Green Mile

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

The Green Mile

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

Kurt Masur

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Horatio Nelson

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Laurence Sterne

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

Eric Christian Olsen

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.

Invisible Driving

I should ask if it was good for you," Miles murmured, "but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic.

Illumination

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Miles to Go

The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile & achieving goals with an extra MILE

Life Simplified!

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

We’re distant cousins. He’s my first cousin, but he’s 5,000 miles away. And he doesn’t talk much.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?

There's No Such Place as Far Away