Distance Quotes

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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's… — Diane Ackerman
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? — Richard Bach
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. — Emily Greene Balch
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality… — Alan Ball
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. — Henry Ward Beecher
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. — Ugo Betti
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron.… — Lewis Black
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free… — Bono
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. — Victor Borge
I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to… — Jo Brand
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. — Pam Brown
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. — Edward Albee
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived… — James Buchan
When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would… — Gisele Bundchen
I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that… — David Byrne
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades… — Italo Calvino
I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a goal in mind,… — Drew Carey

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