A Distance Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about A Distance

A Distance Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational A Distance quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance. — Vasily Rozanov

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough. — Diogenes Laertius

Love doesn't think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance. — Celine Dion

The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person's gone the world remains but it isn't the same thing, it's at a distance. — Joyce Carol Oates

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. — Arthur Lydiard

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. — Samuel Johnson

This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation. — Guy Debord

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000. — Cindy Klassen

It's a treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself . . . - Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner — John L. Parker Jr.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk. — Will Durant

This means intentionally adding distance that creates an edgy instability or uncertainty, a slight and enjoyable dissatisfaction. — Emily Nagoski

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. — Arthur Koestler

Men had it so simple. When it wasn't about Sticking It In, it was about Having The Gun, a variation that allowed them to Stick It In from a distance. — Thomas Pynchon

Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn't kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth. — V.S. Kemanis

Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh. — Richard House

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either. — Amish Tripathi

Maybe its not a person we fall in love with so much as a distance, a depth , which that particular person happens to embody. — Gustaf Sobin

Loving a sailor is not hard, the distance is hard, the sacrafices are hard, but loving him ... THATS THE EASIEST THING I HAVE DONE ... — Na

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. — Alan Turing

You talk to me as if from a distance And I reply with impressions chosen from another time. — Brian Eno

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included. — Jerry Della Femina

History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance. — Timothy Zahn

Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning. — Robert Kennedy

If I'm upset, hold me and tell me how beautiful I am.
If I growl, retreat to a safe distance and throw chocolate.
- BEST. ADVICE. EVER. — Darynda Jones

The main thing was not the speed or distance so much as running every day, without taking a break. — Anonymous

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance. — Oliver Goldsmith

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. — Ilka Chase

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work. — Leona Lewis

It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and _"
"Well?"
"From you, sir — Charlotte Bronte

If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds. — Tom Clancy

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance. — Vironika Tugaleva

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux

Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it — Abhishek Vicky

Surely she had never traveled a greater emotional distance — Margot Lee Shetterly

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together. — Rivera Sun

from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance. — Louise Penny

It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen. — Alice Hoffman

Let me not be sentimental, let the distance in time give me humor and irony and a shrewd, if loving, eye. — Sylvia Plath

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance. — Benjamin Franklin

When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder. — Dante Alighieri

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running. — Ljupka Cvetanova

You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been. — Sasha Azevedo

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. — Laurence J. Peter

Trouble is, I love better at a distance... — Ashe Vernon

A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes. — George Orwell

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises. — Jaggi Vasudev

At a distance, they looked just boring enough to be important. — Craig Schaefer

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained. — Ernest Kurtz

A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner. — Ernest Partridge

The ultra distance forgives injury, fatigue, bad form, and illness. A bear with determination will defeat a dreamy gazelle every time. — Scott Jurek

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away. — Ian Frazier

The importance of a journey is not measured by the distance covered, but by the destination reached. — Narendra Modi

Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt. — Vincent D'Onofrio

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all. — Michel Faber

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. — Alberto Giacometti

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. — Patrick Rothfuss

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves. — Bruce Lee

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal

The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Distance is only a test to see how far love travels. — Vi Keeland

If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together there is something you must always remember ... — A.A. Milne

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance. — Seneca The Younger

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. — Beth Simone Noveck

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. — Harlan Ellison

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal

Standing is symbolic of life itself,
Open space is just a distance between you and someone else — Mira Midha

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. — G. M. Trevelyan

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. — Dalai Lama

Some men look larger at a distance. — George R R Martin

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. — Sophie Calle

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. — Nelson Mandela

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition. — Yehudi Menuhin

Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"
Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor. — Kristin Hannah

Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures. — Debasish Mridha

We have travelled a long distance from the cow with a bucket of raw milk under its udder. We are a long way from home.' This — Deborah Levy

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. — Amy Bloom

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. — Theodore Hesburgh

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. — Wendell Berry

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting. — Albert Camus

Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare. — Anthony Liccione

A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area. — Kim Stanley Robinson

To be able to go the distance with a brother or sister, to have them turn into your ally, is about the greatest thing that can ever happen to you. — Marie Brenner

There's a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky. — Alfred Noyes

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. — Robert Breault

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. — Antonio Porchia

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. — Marilyn Vos Savant

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away. — Noah

Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy. — Ann Aguirre

She must talk to a man who was ten immensities away. — Zora Neale Hurston

The hills in the distance held my life in a bowl filled with everything I could possibly want. — Anita Diamant

Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ...
As distance always doesn't ensure solutions — Adil Adam Memon

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics. — Harriet Lerner

She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult. — Terry Pratchett