Distance Quotes
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Distance Quotes & Sayings
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All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.
— Vasily Rozanov
The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm's length.
— Christophe Agou
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
We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.
— Jacques Ellul
Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.
— Chrissie Wellington
I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.
— Franklin Pierce
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.
These relations show that the intensity of illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of light.
— Charles Mark Turton
Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.
— Will Durant
Help them, but don't make friends with them.
— Pat Conroy
Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
— Vanessa Hudgens
This means intentionally adding distance that creates an edgy instability or uncertainty, a slight and enjoyable dissatisfaction.
— Emily Nagoski
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
Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it.
— Ricardo Legorreta
But time and distance is nothing in the face of true affinity ...
— Eleanor Catton
In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees.
— David Nicholls
Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure.
— Jean Charest
If i think about us logically, there is no chance for us. But logic doesn't produce magic.
— Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan
If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together there is something you must always remember ...
— A.A. Milne
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
It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
The hills in the distance held my life in a bowl filled with everything I could possibly want.
— Anita Diamant
Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'The Last Trump — Isaac Asimov
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
— Edwin Way Teale
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 water glittered under the moon's careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city.
— Katherine McIntyre
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
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
— Giannina Braschi
In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.
— Yehudi Menuhin
There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.
— Harlan Coben
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.
— Robert Breault
The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.
— Siddharth Katragadda
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
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
— Leo Buscaglia
The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.
— Emily Dickinson
She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult.
— Terry Pratchett
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
— Bel Kaufman
Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.
— Oprah Winfrey
She must talk to a man who was ten immensities away.
— Zora Neale Hurston
No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.
— Lynn Austin
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
Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it?
— Simon Van Booy
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
Distance is meaningless, as is time, when minds and souls intertwine."-Gerome in CHANGELING- — Vaun Murphrey
For what we're about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful," Russell muttered as the first explosions echoed in the distance.
— C.J. Carella
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
I want to burn down the distance between us
— James Ellroy
Long slow distance makes long slow runners.
— Jim Bush
Some men look larger at a distance.
— George R R Martin
Belief that we know all & we are always right Leads to distance & silence
Keep learning & Keep Expressing ... — Adil Adam Memon
Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.
— Sophie Calle
Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distancebetween himself and the person who'd come for help. — Jodi Picoult
Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.
— Brian W. Aldiss
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
Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.
— Leona Lewis
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
— Malcolm De Chazal
Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance
between the two is endless! — Rumi
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
— Stendhal
When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.
— Louie Giglio
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
— Robert Olen Butler
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
The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.
— Herb Elliott
Europeans have depth but not distance while North Americans have distance but not depth.
— Samuel Beckett
I hadn't really thought that far ahead. I was trying to put some distance between me and-""-the corset" He said, his dimples appearing — Mary Jane Hathaway
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
— Bob Newhart
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
Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy.
— John O'Donohue
Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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