#mile

Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#simile

Lei, padre, ha conosciuto i tempi in cui le sorti dell'umanità erano ancora nelle mani di Dio. Ma io no, non ho conosciuto quei tempi, sono nato dopo, e mi sembrano lontani come un'era preistorica. Posso arrivare a rimpiangerli, ma che senso avrebbe? E come me, dopo di me, sono comparsi altri milioni di persone, in questo mondo che è cambiato così profondamente, che è diventato di colpo così precario, traballante. E lei non crede que alcune di queste persone, almeno alcune, non tutte, possano essere congenitamente un po' diverse, possano avere sviluppato qualcosa de profondamente simile a questo nuovo mondo, che prima di loro non era mai esistito? Non lo crede possibile? ↗

— Sandro Veronesi

#simile

You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply will not go away. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#simile #simile

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles. ↗

— Jack Adams

#close #directions #each #forces #found

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. ↗

— Peter Agre

#abraham lincoln #act #bill #half #homestead

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#everything #lives #milestones #need #our

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#davis #guys #i #just #like

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#give #love #only #people #smile

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#got #i #i love #know #lines

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#build #commute #even #mile #oregon