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“The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.”

God Christian Faith Christianity Perspective Bible Infinite Point Of View Miles Inches Possibilities Measurement Restoration Measure Restore Raise Restored Resurrect Yardstick

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You can measure a man by the inches lost in his failures, or you can measure a man by the miles forged in his refusal to give up despite the pain of the inches.”

Success Failure Miles Inches Refusal Measure

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some people are so much heaven to the square inch that life is simply hell, when she leaves you in order to go south for the winter. (Yes, women are people too, sometimes even threee.)”

Source: Nothing is here...

“On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.”

Two Sides Issues Abortion Inches Fence

Author:Victoria Moran

“I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.”

Cold Madness Insanity Inches Blades Razors

Author:Elton John

“We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.”

Long Brain Five Greater Six Logic Infinite Depth Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Dimensions Broads Inches Geometry Magnitude Ontology

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"”

Way Soul Shows Earth Stars Grows Water Sweet Essentials Garden Gold Plant Seeds My Way Brown Weed Bells Gardening Inches Vow Cottages Crimson Renown

Author:E. Nesbit

“At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.”

Years Buddhism Extremes Active Stuck Lifts Bags Intensity Inches Grandchildren Automobile Old Lady Prunes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the head, but it is not connected.”

Lying Energy Buddhism Six Connected Inches Tubes Chakra Vortex Seven Chakras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The naval center is about two inches below the navel.”

Heart Littles Two Eye Buddhism Thirds Chests Inches Eyebrows Chakra Naval Third Eye Navel

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.”

Light Known Buddhism Thousand Enlightenment Connected Planes Inches Crowns Petals Chakra Lotuses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.”

People Thinking Years Stills Country Ability Watches Television Tvs Internet Wide Inches Foreign Countries Csi

Author:Leslie Moonves

“We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.”

People Thinking Games Grows Watches Doubt Middle Television Football Stores Survivor Inches Episodes Groceries Grocery Stores Wireless Football Game

Author:Leslie Moonves

“In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.”

I Can Two Home Stuff Share Type Office Computer Copies Mail Inches Mice Keyboards Macs Home Office

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.”

Voice Careers Roles Happened Feet Inches

Author:Olivia Williams

“Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.”

Thinking Knows Art Stills Actors Stars Vision Know How Comedy College Shapes Directors Art Is Inches Affectionate Josh Liberal Arts Rare Things

Author:Owen Gleiberman

“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!”

Looks Light Seems Sun Land Fronts Gains Window Tired Silent Wave Painful Climbs Inches Eastern Daylight Flooding Creeks

Author:Arthur Hugh Clough

“Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.”

Needs Body Dark Feet Love You Hair Taste Skins Ears Warmth Shade Inches Toes Exceptional Need You Texture Softness Arches I Need You Dark Hair Saliva

Author:Nick Cave

“When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.”

People New York Staring Inches Subway Away From You

Author:Aaron Yoo

“I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.”

Love Mean Made Stills Problem Age Hair Roots Skins Management Shoes Convinced Intensity Inches Anger Management

Book:True

Source: True

“When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.”

War Would Be Standing Decided Wave Broke Height Patriotic Tall Inches Rejected

Author:Julia Child

“You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.”

Reason Six Height Extras Inches Cheerfulness

Author:Stephen Fry

“Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.”

Two Wanted Five Saws Trouble Feet Car Eight Wide Disaster Bridges Department Inches Brushes Sandwiches Transportation Pennsylvania Sausage Contractor Piers

Author:Steve Kroft

“The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.”

Opinion Pressure Atmosphere Pounds Squares Inches Public Opinion Sixteen

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.”

Long Two Eye Form Mystery Divine Paper Size Philosopher Architecture Melody Inches Roof Magnificent Curves Symbolic Grandeur Cathedrals

Book:Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers

Source: Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers

“There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter!”

Should Littles Lasts Night Water Rooms Daughter Crosses Curious Crafts Sunday My Daughter Laughed Inches Port Moors Sunday Night Babyhood

Author:George Washington

“Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.”

Thinking May Eye Three Principles All Things Bounds Inches Beetles

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!”

Bigs Boys Feet Six Nine Tall Inches

Author:Mae West

“Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.”

People Knows Want Humans Reason Four Seeing Ten Harder Wings Very Good Speed Faster Reason Why Sensible Inches Mice Gnome High Speed

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.”

Art Walks Effort Half Art Is Inches

Author:Yoko Ono

“It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.”

Ifs Different Power Paint Size Wide Scales Inches

Author:Robert Motherwell

“I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.”

Should Trying Artist Study Pieces Masters Structure Painter Artistic Just One Copies Squares Inches Execution Canvas Small Pieces Rubens

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan.".”

Today Earth Speak Heaven Christ Church Messages Satan Revelations Squares Inches

Author:Gary North

“Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.”

Trying Play Easy Discipline Percent I Realized Nine Experiments Piano Inches Nails Schoolwork

Author:Trent Reznor

“I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.”

Looks Five Feet Hundred Thirty Pounds Inches Magnificent Eleven Racehorses

Author:Julie Newmar

“A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.”

Men Long Two Boys He Man Directors Shots Pairs Inches Filmmaking Lenses Scissors

Book:This is Orson Welles

Source: This is Orson Welles

“It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.”

Use Maps Inches

Author:Jewel

“Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.”

Important Games Six Self Improvement Ears Golf Improvement Inches

Author:Arnold Palmer

“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.”

Source: The Age of Miracles

“Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.”

Men Persons Character Feet Strange Six Bills Height Inches

Book:The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography

Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography

“Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?”

Men Left Bones Flesh Squares Inches Quench Folding

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.”

Ifs Turns Women Achieve Heat Tension Inches Hug Handshake

Author:Amy Dickinson

“The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by mistake since its colors are those of the London Reform Club. Once tied around its victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims the insurance before running off to Germany where it lives in hiding.”

Long Running Mistake Color Humorous Claims Victim Clubs London Stores Reform Gentleman Germany Department Necks Hiding Inches Tied

Author:Mike Harding

“I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?”

Knows Four Feet Female Dresses Seven Do You Know Inches Heels Wigs Impersonate

Author:RuPaul

“I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.”

Justice Heard Excuse Inches Harsh Retreat Earnest Disobedience Abolition Respectability Uncompromising Abolitionist Harsh Truth

Author:William Lloyd Garrison

“Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.”

Mind Reason Attention Half Knowledge Teaching Argument Ears Yield Inches Shallow Traitor Attention And Respect

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.”

Character Fool Inches Rogues

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.”

Should Wells Three Impossible Effects Ten Gains Difficulty Paint Appearance Speed Inches Canvas Yards Fleeting

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I'm training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat!”

Way Should Would Be Guy Arms Walking Training Come Up Like Me Gym Inches Toms Fifteen Curls Squat

Author:Lee Priest

“Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight, But sour in taste, false as the putrid core: Thy flaring glass is gems at her half light; She makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor: She boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell; Performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell: Her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.”

Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man