Walking Quotes - page 55

When you are walking up a mountain to attempt something that nobody's ever tried before, and you pass people bringing corpses down, it becomes very clear that if you get it wrong, the consequences could be fatal. (Lewis Pugh)
There is no use in walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. View quote
Mark Twain
These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they're not necessarily evil, unless you let them be. View quote
Sherman Alexie
It's not easy to kill a man and walk away from it. Every time you kill, a little piece of you dies. Kill often enough, and though you still may talk and eat and breathe, you're a walking dead man your ownself. View quote
Ralph Compton
Vast is the night. How you have grown, dear night, walking your empty halls, how tall! View quote
Robinson Jeffers
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. View quote
Leslie Stephen
What we should desire creeps silently inside us and replaces what we really desire. ... We take jobs, make compromises, and settle down for the long wait, for the arrival of the future that will bring the reward of happiness we so justly deserve for our sacrifice of the pleasures of the moment. The process is so slow we scarcely notice the substitution of plastic for flesh. We forget how the body sang when it ran free; how it rejoiced in stretching, rolling, skipping, dancing, walking, eating, loving, bounding, leaping, resting. Gradually the body beings to change to protect itself against the intrusion of joy or sorrow. It armors itself against the threat of playfulness and spontaneity. ... The working body is complete when it is thus armed against those emotions that would threaten the primacy of the work ethic and the pattern of delayed gratification upon which it rests. View quote
Sam Keen
Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system. View quote
Sam Keen
The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance. View quote
Siddharth Katragadda
I was walking down the road the other day, and I couldn't help but notice how beautiful the world is. And I thought to myself "Why would anyone in their right mind bother to take drugs?". Then I remembered I was on drugs, and that was the reason. View quote
Simon Munnery
The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise. (Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft)
You may be quite sure that if little light comes from a Christian character, little light comes into it. We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. But let the love of Jesus become the master-principle of our hearts, and there will be no halting or irresolution; no parleying with temptation; no seeking to explain away our duty under color of deliberating to discover what it is; no looking one way and walking another; but with undivided souls, and with enthusiastic devotion, we shall do only and always the will of Him who loved us, and gave Himself for us. View quote
William Mackergo Taylor
I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me. View quote
Carlos Santana
About his body hair I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, 'I'm in here when you're walking around like that' View quote
Robin Williams
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you. View quote
Bono
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. View quote
Bob Knight
I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes, in the breadth of your mouth as in a beautiful happy day, which remains beautiful and happy, even when the head is sick and tired. View quote
Franz Kafka
You have to learn all the big ideas in the key disciplines in a way that they're in a mental latticework in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life. If you do that, I solemnly promise you that one day you'll be walking down the street and you'll look to your right and left and you'll think "my heavenly days, I'm now one of the few competent people in my whole age cohort." View quote
Charlie Munger
The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So, during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes focused on her feet. It was then he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer. View quote
Milan Kundera
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't much matter whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started. (Edward Abbey)
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night. View quote
Oscar Levant
When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation. View quote
Shirley MacLaine
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained. View quote
M. R. James
Men for whom divorce means walking out of their children's lives except when they choose to see the children are the male equivalent of the adolescent feminists: men who want options without obligations. Morally, they have no right to walk out. A law that allows that is similarly immoral. "Primary Parent” laws are just such laws. View quote
Warren Farrell