quotes about Long Walks

last updated: November 28, 2023

[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.
-- Myrna Blyth

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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

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When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.
-- Rolonda Watts

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Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.
-- Alanis Obomsawin

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Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!
-- Charlotte Alington Barnard

Source : Charlotte Alington Barnard (1877). “Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel”

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“Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.”
“Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.”
“Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.”
“If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.”
“Amy [ Schumer] is a really, really hilarious writer.She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.”
“If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.”

Source : "Real Time With Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch". Interview with Azeen Ghorayshi, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2012.
“New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”
“I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.”
“It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.”