I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted.
I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.
What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is. " "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.
The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U. S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.
People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry. ' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.
But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.
Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds. ) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.
A doctor says to a man, "You want to improve your love life? You need to get some exercise. Run ten miles a day. " Two weeks later, the man called the doctor. The doctor says, "How is your love life since you have been running?" "I don't know, I'm 140 miles away!"
Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.
What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.
I eat right. I exercise. I run 5 miles a day on the treadmill.
What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.
There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.
I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.
It is very difficult to apply the old Indian adage 'Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins,' unless you get out of your own moccasins first.