Inches Quotes - Page 29

• In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

  George Herbert

  Hundred, Contention

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.355

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• All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

  Louise Erdrich

  Believe, Cutting, Feet

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.214, Odyssey Editions

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• I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups a rapidly blinking green light. Someone joins me, his body tense. Finnick, of course. Because only a victor would see what I see so immediately. The arena. Laced with pods controlled by Gamemakers. Finnick's fingers caress a steady red glow over a doorway. "Ladies and gentlemen..." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

  Suzanne Collins

  Moving, Voice, Feet

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

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• Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

  Marya Mannes

  Mean, Two, Differences

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Believe, Hard Work, Past

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Yankees, Curves

  George Herman Ruth, Babe Ruth (1992). “Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M. Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. "So where's the message?" "Right there." I pointed from picture to picture. "It says: Chloe, I'll be back, Simon.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fog, Drawing, Signatures

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• I do have a 22-inch waist, I will say that.

  Megan Fox

  Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Pie, Half, Size

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2012

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• It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches.

  Conan O'Brien

  Four, Opponents, Naked

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• I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

  Stephen Harper

  World, Finance, Term

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• If you lose a couple of inches off your stomach, your business down there will look a lot longer.

  Jack LaLanne

  Couple, Looks, Stomach

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• I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Trying, Walks

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn't pinch the better parts of me, an inch of vodka, ten to twelve hours of sleep. - Cole St Clair, Forever.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sleep, Simple, Cheese Sandwiches

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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• Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used

  Terry-Thomas

  Talking, Teeth, Fancy

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• Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

  Rafe Spall

  Children, Stones, Fats

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• Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.

  Nick Earls

  Book, Moving, Heart

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• Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,
  At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

  Juvenal

  Death, Seven, Draws

  Juvenal (1836). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,”, p.140

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• if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Freedom, Fall, Fighting

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• Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Relationship, Baby, Cutting

  Song: I'm On Fire, Album: Born In The U.S.A., 1984

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• I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

  Malcolm X

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

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• Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Long Ago, Years

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.133, Penguin

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• The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel; our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Thinking, Two

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.691, Wordsworth Editions

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• You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva." he flattened me into the side of the car. I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently aroused male.

  Sylvia Day

  Thinking, Two, Feet

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