Inches Quotes - Page 6

• Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.

  Dean Karnazes

  Success, Granted, Ifs

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.89, Rodale

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• Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.

  Lee Westwood

  Months, Eighteen

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• I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high
  between the horses' feet and the wheel-track.
  Which Dakin's and Maynard's wagons had
  Passed over many a time.
  An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate,
  Or an inch higher. Yet it lived and flourished,
  As much as if it had a thousand acres
  Of untrodden space around it, and never
  Knew the danger it incurred.
  It did not borrow trouble, nor invite an
  Evil fate by apprehending it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Horse, Flower

  "The Heart of Thoreau's Journals".

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• The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Surfing, Way

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• In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

  Lyman Abbott

  New York, Space, Rude

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• Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Beauty, Running, Hero

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• ...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches toward death.

  Pope Clement XIII

  Powerful, Lying, Errors

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• Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.

  Dogen

  Life, Moon, Light

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• If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Father, Half

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• What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

  Michael Shermer

  Spring, Space, Hands

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• As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.

  Sania Mirza

  Winning, Feet, Long

  "Mirza hits back for modern Muslims" by Robert Philip, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 01, 2007.

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• Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

  Laurens van der Post

  Love, Fighting, Men

  "Feather Fall: An Anthology".

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• Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off

  John Motson

  Soccer, White, Snow

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• Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.

  Mike Moreno

  Loss, Years, Healthy

  Mike Moreno (2013). “The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Half, Stuntman, Shots

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• I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.

  Mike Katz

  People, Peers, Want

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• The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Struggle, Past, Rights

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• Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

  Robert Hass

  Golf, Games, People

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or content and they are not. Whatever they are, we are not and vice versa. Two trains going in different directions that pass for a few powerful moments at full speed, blasting noise and wind but then they are gone. Whatever serious chemistry might have been possible if, isn’t.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Powerful, Fall, Emotional

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• Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

  Warren Spahn

  Home, Two, Half

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• His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

  E. B. White

  Rivers, Long, Mountain

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• I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

  Paul Pierce

  Body, Kind, Grew

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• If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Eye, Dark, Hair

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.108, Library of America

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• Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

  Rich Mullins

  Strong, Passion, Thinking

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• A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.

  Royce Gracie

  Mma, Two, Black

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