If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty;… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they… — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone… — Robert Stawell Ball Copy Share Image
When it comes to hitting solid drives, the secret is to swing within yourself. I know that sounds like a cliche, but… — Sergio Garcia Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
For instance, people who have to walk miles for water - and we just turn on the faucet and let it run.… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the "second mile" and told us to… — Hartman Rector, Jr Copy Share Image
The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me… — John Moffitt Copy Share Image
Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New… — Oliver Evans Copy Share Image
If you say I'm not okay With miles to go. If you say there ain't no way that I could know. if… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I haven't rebelled yet. I don't know, I think maybe just moving up here (to L.A.) by myself counts. But I never… — Cassidy Erin Gifford Copy Share Image
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When you get out onto a glacier that's the size of Northern Ireland and it's so vast, and you're standing on top… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippled, so he poured all… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
This sounds strange to many people, but I work out for exactly 16 minutes every day, and do so at maximum speed… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
At that time there was, but they didn't have the guitar I wanted. There are only about 2000 people there and the… — Freedy Johnston Copy Share Image
The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s,… — George Strait Copy Share Image
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image