Mile Markers Quotes

#1. Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

Jeffrey Fry

#2. I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.

Neal Stephenson

#3. Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we've gotten better.

Tony Hsieh

#4. At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.

Lorraine Moller

#5. I began to count mile markers, made mental lists of everything I really needed: a new pair of shoes, a winter coat for the baby, a ticket for a Greyhound traveling back or ahead five hundred years.

Sherman Alexie

#6. croton oil on the string beans and stirred it in. She went to her room and

John Steinbeck

#7. You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.

Jack Welch

#8. I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

Edmund White

#9. I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

George Vecsey

#10. There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian ... and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom ... I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. Everything is out there. That's why they call it everything.

Buddy Wakefield

#12. G'night, Van. Love you.

Maya Banks

#13. Flynn -I'm glad you ruined me."
Her voice stabs my heart, because I recognize that tone. I've heard it before. "Don't start with the good-byes

Amie Kaufman

#14. Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

Theodore Roosevelt