Mileage From City Quotes & Sayings

You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive. — Ted Cruz

The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary. — Adam Smith

I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen! he squeaked and ran. — Jeaniene Frost

Anger will abate and become more controlled when it knows it must come before a judge each day. — Seneca.

I have been studying the principles of socialism deeply of late, and I came to the conclusion that I must join the cause. It looked good to me. You work for the equal distribution of property and start in by swiping all you can and sitting on it. Ah, noble scheme! Me for it! — P.G. Wodehouse

If the requirements of world-structure are so inexorable, what scope is there for a free providence in distributing pleasures and pains? If pains are the natural rubs of a world-structure bearing on sentient creatures, what need have we to view them as instruments of a disciplinary providence? — Jocelyn Gibb

I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way. — Lucille Ball

Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night. — Luis Marques

Infinite possibilities are available if you follow a pertinent sequence of creative action. — Wayne W. Dyer

They certainly seem enthusiastic, don't they?" Rick observed, coming up to lean against the window frame beside her.
"What exactly did you say to them when you signed the contract?"
"Only something about how much value I place on people adhering to the schedule they agree on."
"You didn't bare your teeth or anything?"
"Only in a smile."
"Nice. — Suzanne Enoch

You may suffer many defeats in this life, but you will not be defeated.
You will rise after each trial
stronger and wiser. — Leon Brown

... Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibers of a map, that pure zone between land and chart, between distances and legends, between nature and storyteller. The place they had chosen to come to, to be their best selves, to be unconscious of ancestry. Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage, and the book, he was alone, his own invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was within it. — Michael Ondaatje