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Letter "M" » miles
«If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Determination
| Keywords:
despise, dropped, How to swim, miles, nearest, ocean, plane, swam, swim
«My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.»
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
Five Days, grandmother, grandmothers, miles, ninety-seven, ninety, seven, sixty, started
«Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.»
«Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.»
«It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.»
«Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
clergyman, clergymen, gate, kingdom, miles, nearer, The Kingdom, thief
«I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.»
«Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.»
«I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, appointment, beech, beech tree, birch, birches, deepest, eight, frequently, miles, pined, pines, pine tree, pining, snow, tramp, tramped, tramps, yellow, yellow birch
«These high wild hills and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make them wearisome;But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,Making the hard way sweet and delectable.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
delectable, discourse, discourses, discoursing, draw, drawn-out, draw out, hills, miles, rough, sugar, sugared, The Discourses, The Hard, The Sugar, uneven, wearisome
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