Meters Quotes
64 quotes by 58 authors
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
— Martha Beck
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(On the 1,500 meters) We went pretty slowly. It was a nice final lap for everyone. I didn't really have that last gear, but I…
— Blake Williams
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(On winning the 800 meters in front of the home fans) I was really excited to come back here. Of course you are always a…
— Leonel Manzano
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Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens…
— Gabe Jennings
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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle,…
— Sebastian Coe
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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's…
— Lance Armstrong
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It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely.…
— Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev
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I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very…
— Norah O'Donnell
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air…
— Edward Abbey
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Today's meters are little computers.
— Ros Hubbard
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When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100…
— Emil Zatopek
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If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would…
— Joseph J. Romm
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Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had…
— Joseph J. Romm
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I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a…
— Ansel Adams
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I know you are reporters and I know this is your job, but, you know, take your note pads, take your pencils down, take your…
— Maria Sharapova
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People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it…
— Daniel Yergin
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I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx.…
— Zahi Hawass
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Growing up, you always dream of winning a gold medal. But coming into these Games, it wasn't something I was focused on. I'm just enjoying…
— Cindy Klassen
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I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or…
— Bode Miller
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There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They…
— Moshe Katsav
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