Distance Quotes
2234 quotes by 1610 authors
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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
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
— Richard Bach
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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
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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
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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
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
— Ugo Betti
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
— Theodor Adorno
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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
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
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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
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
— Victor Borge
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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
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
— Pam Brown
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
— Edward Albee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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