“As it is said:
Go hundreds of miles away
From places of dispute;
Don't stay for an instant
Where disturbing emotions prevail.”
The Heart of Compassion (2006)
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Dilgo Khyentse17
Bhutanese Buddhist Lama 1910–1991Related quotes
“Why that’s a hundred miles away. That’s a long way to go just to eat.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
On declining invitation to White House dinner honoring Nobel laureates, as quoted in Life magazine (20 January 1962)
Charles I of England (1600–1649) monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Last words, said on the scaffold before his execution. ( 30 January, 1649 http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/charles1.html).
“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
Variant: Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet
" When I Set Out For Lyonnesse http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2736" (1870), lines 1-4, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) American evangelist and publisher
Author unknown, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 320.
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Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Roll Another Number (For The Road)
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Variant: My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.