Millionth Of An Inch Quotes

#1. Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.

Eboo Patel

#2. The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Anatole Broyard

#3. One less desirable aspect of democracy is that it seems to require serious demonization of the enemy if the nation and public opinion are to be galvanized sufficiently to pay a serious price in blood or treasure at war.

Graham E. Fuller

#4. If you stay in bed all day with the covers over your head, if you overeat for the millionth time in your life, if you get drunk, if you get stoned, if it's just this habitual thing that you think is going to make you feel better, you know that's going to depress you and make you more discouraged.

Pema Chodron

#5. If we must
both
be right.
we will
lose
each other.

Nayyirah Waheed

#6. She had only hesitated for a millionth of a second, but I could tell the moment she saw me. Like I said : I'm used to it by now.

R.J. Palacio

#7. Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

Colin Greenwood

#8. You read everything - that's part of the job," he said. "You accumulate all this trivia, and you hope that someday maybe a millionth of it will be useful.

Walter Isaacson

#9. Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.

Ahmed Zewail

#10. I'm sorry,' I say for what feels like the millionth time. I know, even as my mouth forms the words, that I will say them for the rest of my life. Forever. That there will never be a time when I am not, in some small way, apologizing for the damage my brother has wrought.

Jennifer Banash

#11. We're going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don't look so suspicious; it's worked before.

Suzanne Collins

#12. The day you apologise for who you are is the day you give another control over who you are.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#13. It was exactly as he'd thought it would be, like the first time and the millionth time all at once, like being wide awake, like losing his balance. Only this time, it wasn't just him; this time, they were losing their balance together.

Jennifer E. Smith

#14. To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.

Ben Gibbard

#15. Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

Norman Mailer

#16. When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?

Chuck Klosterman

#17. Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.

Ann Patchett

#18. Only one person can change your life and that is you.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.

John Perry

#20. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

Jennifer Niven

#21. God, I wish, for the millionth time, that I could be like her and Nic, so sure of what they have, what they want. That I didn't always feel jangly, restless, primed to jump off a bridge and let the current carry me away.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#22. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

James Joyce

#23. Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

R. Buckminster Fuller

#24. When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Bill Bryson

#25. An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

E. O. Wilson

#26. I had a dream about you last night, for the millionth time! We did what we always do in my dreams. We talked, but we never made out. How come I still dream about you if we never freaking make out?

Crystal Woods

#27. The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.

Gregory Stock

#28. When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.

Jeff Foxworthy

#29. As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio.

Alexandre Dumas

#30. We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas A. Edison

#31. We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.

Jeff Kinney

#32. Dear Friends: As one who has experimented extensively with life in the home and community, using real people in true-life situations, I doubt that any playthings could prepare a child for one millionth of what is going to hit him in the teeth, ready or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

#33. If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.

Phil Plait

#34. Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

George Ade

#35. Julie would have died there.

Elizabeth Wein

#36. Over and over, I kept thinking I've got to go home and then, for the millionth time, I can't.

Donna Tartt

#37. ... the natural course from nullity to grandeur is to forget that you are a gramme and to feel that you are a millionth part of a ton.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#38. My witness is the wind, which has gone on and on, and will continue on and on. And it will carry forward my hopes and dreams for you ... and for us.

Jose N. Harris

#39. Whatever mystery attaches to such a death is imposed on it by those who live. It is a tribute to the human spirit that the life preceding triumphs over the ugly events that most of us will experience as we die, or as we move toward our last moments.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#40. Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

Atticus Shaffer