#stride

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#astride #bad #good #good nature #horse

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cannot #civilization #country #crucial #down

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. ↗

— Sean Astin

#distance #feels #nothing #perfect #run

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#counted #humanity #only #slow #strides

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#anything #audience #away #because #becomes

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#basket #companions #foam #gallop #gathered

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#hit #self-consciousness #stride #where

Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#always #around #ball #beat #because

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#difficult #find #hour #i #i can

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?' ↗

— Eric Liu

#ago #america #astride #capitalist #china