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Quotes About Strides

I'm making strides to have dialogue with life. I'm walking down a garden path, something like that. And you're looking at the trees, and then you start to look at them through your inner eye.
~ Wayne Shorter
The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar power has to fascinate you. There have been strides to get the costs down, and if this will work, you have to get costs down so it is competitive with fossil fuels.
~ George P. Shultz
Two giant strides toward Lincoln's ascension to the presidency were, ironically, his two failed efforts, in 1855 and 1858, to become the U.S. senator from Illinois.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Happy Monday Fam! Let's make it a positive and productive week! Be proud of the strides you've made and BE EXCITED about what YOU WILL accomplish!
~ Tracey Edmonds
if i add that my uncle took mathematical strides of exactly three feet, and that, while walking, he firmly clenches his fists-the sign of an impetuous temperament-then you will know him well enough not to wish to spend too much time in his company
~ William Butcher
But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on without it but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided.
~ Edith Wharton
We walk by faith and not by sight – not because we are blind, but because faith gives us the courage to face or fears and puts those fears in a context that makes them less frightful. We walk by faith and not by sight because there are places to go that cannot be seen and the scope of our vision is too small for our strides. Faith is not a denial of facts – it is a broadening of focus. It does not deny the hardness of guitar strings, it plucks them into a sweetness of sound
~ Rich Mullins
Too bad Guy interrupted, I said as we snuck around the rear of the building. Otherwise, I could have just walked you down here before you changed back. His look said he wasn't dignifying that with a retort. I always wanted a dog, I said, nearly running to keep up with his long strides. My brothers were both allergic. Have I told you that? Once or twice. Maybe, someday, you could humor me and— Don't finish that sentence.
~ Kelley Armstrong
There was an air of menace about them as they loped slowly across the plain with long lolloping strides, heading for the BFG.
~ Roald Dahl
He walked right to her, his long strides eating the space between them and sucking the oxygen in front of her
~ Cristin Harber, Black Dawn
All rather humbling, she added ruefully. Here we are in the golden age of medicine - making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria - and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow.
~ Emma Donoghue
Here we are in the golden age of medicine—making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria—and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow. No, you're the ones who matter right now. Attentive nurses, I mean—tender loving care, that seems to be all that's saving lives.
~ Emma Donoghue
strides, Shelly grabbed the ball
~ Diane Chamberlain
Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'. 'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly. 'What?' 'The drop'. A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
~ Franz Kafka
In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.
~ Mario Cantone
We applaud the great strides made through genetic identification research, however, we do not condone the use of such information for eugenics and related purposes...The question of what lives are worth living is now answered in doctors' offices instead of in Nazis' T-4 programme. The forces of normalisation seem to be gaining ground.
~ Andrew Solomon
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanc'd,Came tow'ring, arm'd in adamant, and gold.Parad. Lost.
~ Samuel Johnson
I rest in silence and music and long strides, while Sam rests in noise and motion.
~ Anne Lamott
A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.
~ Anthony Kiedis
school). He has a very posh English accent and strides around with a walking stick, swearing like a maniac.
~ John van de Ruit
Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
~ Lamar Hunt
My stride is perfect for 15 steps till I cross the seventh hurdle when I switch to 17 steps.
~ P. T. Usha